#563 Jason Flom with Fred Clay
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In 1979, 28-year-old cab driver Jeffrey S. Boyajian was robbed and murdered when he was shot in the head five times after he picked up three men in a Boston, MA neighborhood. Several eyewitnesses identified Fred Clay as one of the three men who entered Boyajian’s cab. But Clay, who was 16 years old at the time, maintained his innocence. He testified that he’d been at his foster home at the time of the crime, which his foster mother confirmed. Despite his alibi, Clay was charged as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder.
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| 0:00.0 | This call is from a correction facility and is subject to monitoring and recording. |
| 0:05.8 | If I've been in here for it, I can tell you exactly 11,945 days, okay? |
| 0:12.9 | 11,945 days I've been in here, you know, and it hasn't been easy. |
| 0:18.7 | A hundred years. |
| 0:20.7 | That's man, I'm a kid. |
| 0:21.9 | I didn't do anything. |
| 0:23.6 | You know? |
| 0:24.1 | And, you know, that was real painful, man. |
| 0:28.4 | You know, because my life was discarded as if, you know, like I was a piece of trash or something. |
| 0:34.1 | You know, 100 years. |
| 0:35.6 | And I had dreams. |
| 0:36.9 | I wanted to do things. I wouldn't committing crimes. You know, I years, and I had dreams. I wanted to do things. I wouldn't committing |
| 0:38.6 | crimes, you know. I was a very good young man. That is what happens in so many cases. The cops |
| 0:45.0 | have a hunch because they're so smart at the scene. They have a hunch. And once they act on that |
| 0:51.5 | hunch, they sort of develop tunnel vision. and they take off marching in the wrong direction. |
| 0:57.0 | And that happens in so many of these wrongful convictions. |
| 1:00.0 | They opened the cell door and I walked downstairs, and I actually walked downstairs to be outside. |
| 1:08.0 | It felt very strange. |
| 1:10.0 | Like I said, to be walking without no shackles of my feet. |
| 1:13.7 | I thought it was a dream, but then again, it wasn't a dream. |
| 1:17.3 | This is wrongful conviction. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome back to wrongful Conviction. |
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