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Criminal

An Impossible Crime, Part 2

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off. In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from prison to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune named Steve Mills. Steve Mills spent months investigating before publishing a detailed examination of Daniel’s case as part of a series called “Cops and Confessions.” Daniel told us, “To have someone finally say that they believed me changed my whole life.” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast.  We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:32.2

This episode picks up where last week's episode left off.

0:35.0

If you haven't heard that one, you might want to go back and listen to them in order.

0:40.0

In 1995, Daniel Taylor was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

0:48.8

When he was 17, he confessed to participating in a double homicide, along with seven other young black men.

0:56.2

After he confessed, Daniel Taylor realized that he was in police custody at the time of the murders. Police records supported his alibi. The murders had happened at 843 p.m.

1:09.6

Daniel had been arrested for disorderly conduct at 6.45 p.m. and police records showed

1:15.6

that he was not released until 10 o'clock that night. He had just turned 20 when

1:22.4

he began his life sentence in prison in Joliet, Illinois.

1:26.0

You know, it was an old saying, where they say, well, everybody in prison say that they're innocent.

1:31.0

You know? I met plenty of people that that say that they didn't

1:37.6

commit their crime and you know the vibe when you talk to someone that's that's that's saying that they're innocent like you are,

1:46.0

the whole vibe is different. There's a different level of...

1:52.0

I don't even know how to really say it but there's a different sort of reserve when it's a

1:58.5

guy that just been busted as opposed to someone that's innocent.

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