#490 Maggie Freleng with Tom Rhodes

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On the night of August 2, 1996, Tom Rhodes and his wife Jane were on a boat ride on Green Lake, in Minnesota, when Jane fell overboard. Tom failed to find Jane, and her body was discovered the next day. Police suspected Tom from the get-go, focusing on previous marriage and financial troubles. This led the medical examiner to give his initial finding of undetermined cause of death a second look – working backwards from police suspicions, and eventually changing the cause of death to homicide. Tom was eventually sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder.

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0:00.0	Tom Rhodes loves sports.
0:03.0	I wrestled.
0:04.0	I just wrestled year-round.
0:06.0	I get on the Iowa freestyle team and wrestled Olympic style and a thousand years ago won the state freestyle championship and second Greco-Roman.
0:18.0	What weight class were you?
0:20.0	I was 175 for that tournament and I didn't cut any weight at all.
0:24.7	Tom didn't have to work out. He worked on a farm.
0:27.6	I just decided I'm going to go in there, Farm Strong.
0:31.2	Farm Strong. I like that.
0:35.2	I met Tom at the annual Innocence Network Conference in April 24.
0:40.9	You look like you could be a sportscaster.
0:43.3	I was like, I've never seen someone get out of prison with such nice teeth.
0:46.3	Now he does.
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:47.8	Okay.
0:48.4	I had one viable tooth in my head when I left prison and the rest of them needed a lot of work. And so I had no choice,
0:57.1	but I had a lot of work done. Wow. Well, now you have your sportscaster looks. I'm hoping to
1:04.9	land something after talking to you. My name is Tom Rhodes, and I was wrongly incarcerated for 8,932 days, about 24 and a half years.
1:24.3	From Love for Good, this is Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeling.
1:28.4	Today, Tom Rhodes.
1:41.9	Tom Rhodes was born in June, 1959, two Lois and Daniel Rhodes.
1:46.7	My parents farmed and my mom worked for the bank in a little town of Dunkham, Iowa.
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