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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | A warning to listeners. This episode contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence. |
0:07.0 | I'm Amy Britton and this is Canary, an investigative podcast from the Washington Post. |
0:31.0 | Chapter 3. No way in hell she would make this up. |
0:35.0 | What's the business? You have to be tall and you have to be really strong. |
0:42.0 | What's that? |
0:45.0 | You ready Freddie? Oh me first. Oh yeah you think my house is full of treasures just waiting to get up here? |
0:54.0 | Oh God. Are you angry at me that thing? |
0:57.0 | Yeah please. |
0:59.0 | 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. |
1:07.0 | Carol told me that decades ago Truman mailed her an apology letter. |
1:13.0 | For years she said she kept this apology letter in a safe drawer right next to her bed. |
1:19.0 | But before I came to town when she checked the drawer she said that she couldn't find it. |
1:24.0 | And how do you bend your all these yet? |
1:29.0 | That's what I was telling you it's just too much. |
1:33.0 | Now I climbed up a wobbly wooden ladder to get into Carol's attic all in search of this missing letter. |
1:40.0 | The letter that you're remembering from Truman was it a handwritten letter or a typewritten letter? |
1:44.0 | It was a handwritten letter. |
1:47.0 | I didn't know the exact contents of this letter but it seemed like an important piece of evidence that I needed to see. |
1:54.0 | It was very vague. |
1:57.0 | It was like something it just said something like I'm sorry if I hurt you. |
2:02.0 | And please let me know if there's anything I can do. |
2:08.0 | Do you think the letter is so important because you view it as like a confession of wrongdoing? |
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