Earwitness: Episode 1 | Behind the Crown

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

From the production team that brought you the Wrongful Conviction series and Bone Valley, here is Episode 1 of our new podcast: Earwitness. If you like what you hear, you can listen to episode 2 right now wherever you get your podcasts or by clicking this link:

http://lavaforgood.com/earlanding

Journalist Beth Shelburne meets with former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, who explains why he is deeply disturbed by the wrongful conviction of Toforest Johnson for the murder of Deputy Bill Hardy. Through her reporting on the case, Beth, like Baxley, is convinced that Toforest has no connection to the murder. She sets out to conduct an in-depth investigation into why detectives targeted him in the first place, how he was convicted, and why the State of Alabama is still seeking his execution today.

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Earwitness is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.
0:11.5	The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.
0:15.8	Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.
0:19.1	I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts.
0:22.6	This is Ear Witness.
0:24.9	Come to Ear Witness on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.2	On his new podcast, six degrees with Kevin Bacon, join Kevin for inspiring conversations
0:38.8	with his friends and fellow celebrities who are working to make a difference in the world,
0:43.2	like actor Mark Ruffalo.
0:45.2	You know, I found myself moving upstate in the middle of this fracking fight, you know,
0:49.6	and I'm trying to raise kids there.
0:51.7	And you know, my neighbors like willing to poison my water.
0:55.6	Listen to six degrees with Kevin Bacon on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
1:00.6	you get your podcasts.
1:03.3	I'm Liz Flock.
1:04.6	I want to tell you a story about how generations of trauma can lead to a point of no return.
1:10.7	In 2017, a black woman named Devon Gray killed her white boyfriend, John Vance.
1:16.7	She says it was self-defense and he was incredibly abusive.
1:20.2	But then she took a blind plea for manslaughter and got 15 years.
1:25.5	From lemon out of media, this is blind plea, available now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:31.6	Hey, this is Annie.
1:33.0	And Samantha, and we are the host of Stuff Mom Never Told You, a podcast about intersectional
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