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Proof: A True Crime Podcast

Ep. 13 - What Charlie Childers Saw

Proof: A True Crime Podcast

Red Marble Media

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Susan and Jacinda finally find the crucial witness and, along with an interpreter, take him back to the scene. What he has to say leaves them stunned. “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

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. You're going to be. There were only ever two pieces of evidence that Lincoln Lee Clark directly to the death of Brian Bowling.

0:32.6

And they were Angela Bruce and Charlie Childers.

0:36.1

But Angela Bruce recanted, so that leaves only Charlie.

0:40.7

Charlie had been watching TV at the Bollings trailer when Brian was shot, and according to Sergeant

0:45.5

Dallas Battle, Charlie told him that right after the shot went off, he glanced out a window and

0:50.3

seen Lee Clark running through the front yard.

0:53.0

But is that really what Charlie told Sergeant Battle?

0:56.0

Because Charlie is deaf, and Sergeant Battle didn't have an interpreter with him

1:00.0

when he spoke to Charlie.

1:02.0

And even with an interpreter

1:03.2

Charlie's ability to communicate is limited.

1:05.6

He apparently went to the Georgia school the death for a couple years.

1:10.1

Yeah, show you what.

1:12.1

But then his parents isolated him.

1:14.0

His mom was lower than where she thought I was the devil.

1:19.0

Apparently he had the ability to speak in high school,

1:22.0

like he when he was in the deaf community and

1:24.2

then his parents took him away and he was isolated and I am

1:27.7

progressed. Even though communicating with Charlie was going to be difficult, we had to try.

1:34.0

We needed to ask him what he'd seen at the Bullings trailer that night.

1:37.0

But first, we'd have to find him.

1:39.0

During our initial trip to Rome,

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