Ep. 12 - The Party Hostess

Proof: A True Crime Podcast

Red Marble Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Angela Bruce testified that at her party Cain and Lee boasted about killing Brian. What do the other partygoers say and why were they not called to testify? And… 25 years later, Susan and Jacinda talk to Angela herself. “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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jamie Clark told us that his brother Lee is far from the only person he's seen Floyd County send to prison on false charges.
0:11.0	They could put whoever they wanted in that seat and get them sent to prison and forget about it.
0:18.0	Because once they got them sent to prison, it was done with.
0:21.0	I mean, when you're in in prison you ain't got no you
0:24.4	ain't got no whole unless you've got a lot of money and the people they were
0:28.4	getting in trouble they knew they didn't have a lot of money.
0:30.8	Do you think anybody will ever come forward and say we were wrong
0:34.4	about this one? I kind of feel like maybe somebody like that Angela Bruce girl that
0:41.0	testified I kind of feel like maybe she'll want to write her
0:44.2	wrongs and say hey look this cop told me a I better do this or I was going to get
0:50.3	trouble for something I done being it's been 20 years later she might want to get in trouble for something I've done. And it's been 20 years later, she might want to get that off her chest.
0:56.0	Because I promise you 100% that cop made her alive.
1:01.8	Just before Christmas in 1996, 31-year-old Angela Bruce moved to Rome, Georgia with her two young children.
1:08.0	She found a trailer in the McKinney trailer park and started settling in.
1:12.0	About a month later, on a random Friday night,
1:14.0	she threw a party, just a casual get together.
1:16.0	About 15 to 20 people were there and all.
1:20.0	And then one night three months later,
1:22.0	two Floyd County police officers showed up on her doorstep.
1:25.0	They asked her about that party and what Angela Bruce told them would lead to the arrest of Kane Story and Lee Clark.
1:31.0	And what she testified to at trial would form the bedrock for their conviction.
1:36.0	But Lee and Kane and their families all say that Angela Bruce was lying.
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