#518 Jason Flom with Jermaine Archer

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On July 21, 1997 in Brooklyn, NY, Patrick Niles, a passenger in a vehicle, was shot in the head and killed. The driver of the car and surviving eyewitness, Carlos Bethune, initially reported that he did not recognize the shooter, but later identified the perpetrator as Jermaine Archer. Carlos’s questionable identification became the basis for the state’s case against Jermaine, and Jermaine was sentenced to 34 years in prison.

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0:00.0	In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.
0:04.8	Seven thousand bodies out there or more.
0:08.5	A forgotten asylum cemetery.
0:10.6	It was my family's mystery.
0:13.0	Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not.
0:20.2	I'm Larison Campbell, and this is under Yazoo Clay. Listen on the IHeart
0:25.1	Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, I'm Jason Flom, and I'm here with one of my
0:32.6	favorite hosts of Wrongful Conviction, the one and only, Lauren Bright Pacheco. And wrongful conviction has long been
0:39.0	one of my favorite podcasts since before you and I even connected. Aw. It's true. And Lauren, when you're
0:44.1	not busy with wrongful conviction, you're doing deep dives into other highly controversial cases.
0:49.8	And the case of Julia Beverly is the latest, and it's no exception. And it's one I'm covering alongside criminal defense attorney Bob Mata, and it does a deep dive
0:59.9	into the conviction of a young mother accused of brutally stabbing her 11-year-old stepdaughter.
1:05.2	And the podcast is called Murder on Songbird Road.
1:07.6	And what's amazing about this one is that instead of getting involved many years or
1:11.8	even decades after the conviction, you're investigating this case in real time. Exactly. We've been
1:16.7	following it closely since before the sentencing, which really adds a sense of urgency to this,
1:21.7	especially since Beverly has been separated from her three youngest children for the past four years.
1:27.6	It's a nightmare that I think any parent could relate to.
1:30.8	I've lost sleep over this, and I'm completely hooked.
1:33.8	I've actually been sending you episodes before they're even released.
1:38.3	But please just don't let Eye Heart now.
1:40.5	Yeah, well, I think you might have just spilled the beans.
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