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Proof: A True Crime Podcast

Ep. 11 - Stay Gold

Proof: A True Crime Podcast

Red Marble Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis unravel the origins of the alleged Free Birds gang and talk to a key witness who never got to testify. “Proof: A True Crime Podcast” is a serialized investigation into a tragic case of potential wrongful conviction. Hosted by Susan Simpson of the “Undisclosed” Podcast and Jacinda Davis of TV’s “Evil Lives Here” and “Killer in Question,” Proof unravels the tangled and competing demands of the legal system, police practices, truth, guilt and innocence. Visit our website for episode transcripts, case files, behind the scenes photos, and more. On Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook we are @proofcrimepod. Listener questions or tips about any of the cases we cover are welcome @[email protected]. Know someone who would like Proof? Share the show.Share this episode. This Episode was sponsored by: Babbel US, Billion Dollar Brows, and Cerebral. Babbel - Learn a new language through quick lessons, live online classes, podcasts & more. Right now, save up to 60% off your subscription when you go to https://www.babbel.com/proof for up to 60% off your subscription. Billion Dollar Beauty Join the refill revolution and build your own billion dollar box at https://billiondollarbeauty.com and receive 20% off your entire purchase when you enter the code PROOF at checkout. Cerebral - Online depression, anxiety, insomnia treatment and medication delivered to you. Visit the Cerebral website at https://cerebral.com/proof and get 65% off your first month of treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So you don't really know when you learn about the free birds?

0:07.0

Not me, I don't remember.

0:09.0

Because I don't remember Brian ever say anything about it.

0:12.0

About the free birds? Brian ever Brian ever say anything about it.

0:13.0

About the Freiburgs?

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:15.0

If Brian Bowling really was killed because of his membership in the Freiburg gang,

0:21.0

then the obvious people to talk to, to find out more about what happened to him,

0:25.4

would be the other members of the free birds. That's easier said than done though

0:30.2

because there's no agreement on who the members of the gang had been.

0:36.4

Brian's sister and brother-in-law told us that before Brian died they hadn't even known he'd been in a gang.

0:45.0

Who all was in this click game?

0:48.0

A little gang or whatever they called it.

0:50.0

We don't know.

0:52.0

We really don't.

0:52.6

Did you ever talk about like being in a game or anything?

0:55.6

Kenneth told us that Brian hadn't mentioned the free birds and he didn't know about it

1:02.4

until after Brian's death.

1:04.0

But Amanda said she thought the free birds had been a group of neighborhood kids.

1:08.0

Which kids?

1:11.0

Brian, Tommy, James Archer, Josh, and Lee.

1:20.0

Yeah, that was the only ones that I knew of.

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