#496 Maggie Freleng with William Beeman

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of April 26, 1980, visitors at Wildcat Den State Park in Iowa found the body of 22-year-old Michiel Winkel. She had been stabbed 17 times. From the start, police zeroed in on William Beeman, a local DJ with a reputation for being a womanizer. Despite the fact that William did not know Michiel, there was no physical evidence for the crime, and he had an alibi for the days of her possible killing, William was convicted of murder and remains in prison today.

If you want to help William you can contact the Muscatine, Iowa County Attorney, Jim Berry:
https://www.muscatinecountyiowa.gov/141/Attorneys-Office

or, The Drake Wrongful Convictions Clinic:
https://www.drake.edu/law/clinics-centers/clinic/wrongfulconvictionsclinic/

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0:00.0	Hello, you have a call at no expense to you from...
0:05.0	50 Beeman.
0:06.0	An inmate at...
0:08.0	What did he call himself?
0:10.0	You may begin speaking now.
0:15.0	Hello.
0:17.0	Hello.
0:18.0	How you doing?
0:20.0	I'm good. Is this William? Yes. Okay. What. How you doing? I'm good.
0:21.6	Is this William?
0:22.6	Yes.
0:23.6	Okay.
0:24.6	What do you like to be called?
0:25.6	Do you like to be called Will or William?
0:27.6	Most people call me Drifty.
0:30.6	Drifty.
0:31.6	Bill got the nickname Drifty because his mind tends to wander.
0:36.6	And he's aloof.
0:38.5	Bill was kind of a loner.
0:40.7	This is his mom, Donna.
0:42.5	He was off on the corner by self-reading or watching television.
0:47.6	I just don't like crowds.
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