A warning to listeners. This episode contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence.

I'm Amy Britton and this is Canary, an investigative podcast from the Washington Post.

Chapter 3. No way in hell she would make this up.

What's the business? You have to be tall and you have to be really strong.

What's that?

You ready Freddie? Oh me first. Oh yeah you think my house is full of treasures just waiting to get up here?

Oh God. Are you angry at me that thing?

Yeah please.

By this point I had spent two days in Birmingham with Carol Griffin trying to fully understand what she said judge Truman Morrison had done to her.

Carol told me that decades ago Truman mailed her an apology letter.

For years she said she kept this apology letter in a safe drawer right next to her bed.

But before I came to town when she checked the drawer she said that she couldn't find it.

And how do you bend your all these yet?

That's what I was telling you it's just too much.

Now I climbed up a wobbly wooden ladder to get into Carol's attic all in search of this missing letter.

The letter that you're remembering from Truman was it a handwritten letter or a typewritten letter?

It was a handwritten letter.

I didn't know the exact contents of this letter but it seemed like an important piece of evidence that I needed to see.

It was very vague.

It was like something it just said something like I'm sorry if I hurt you.

And please let me know if there's anything I can do.

Do you think the letter is so important because you view it as like a confession of wrongdoing?

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