Franky Carrillo: Life
STORIES by Lea Thau
Lea Thau
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2013
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Strangers from KCW's independent producer project and StoryCentral.org. |
| 0:17.7 | My name is Leah Tao and for today's episode I want you to think back 20 years. |
| 0:24.7 | How old were you 20 years ago and where were you, what were you doing? |
| 0:29.8 | And if you take a breath can you try to hold in your mind all the major things that have |
| 0:34.8 | happened in your life since then? |
| 0:37.8 | The lovers you've had, the children, the places you've gone, the jobs you've had. |
| 0:43.6 | Okay, now try to imagine that you'd spent those same 20 years in prison for a crime you |
| 0:50.5 | didn't commit. |
| 0:52.8 | And it's not like you were some hardened criminal who would commit at five other equivalent |
| 0:57.2 | crimes and so even if you didn't do this one you know you kind of had it coming. |
| 1:01.7 | It's not like that at all, it's like this, you're 16 years old, you're a normal high school |
| 1:06.6 | student with girlfriends and homework when a totally random set of circumstances and |
| 1:12.2 | extremely negligent police work to say the least, get you a double life sentence for |
| 1:18.6 | something you didn't do and you're not supposed to get out ever again. |
| 1:25.7 | 20 years later after writing hundreds and hundreds of letters you managed to get a retrial |
| 1:31.6 | and your original prosecutor is crying on the stand admitting that they knew all along |
| 1:39.1 | that there were doubts about your case. |
| 1:43.0 | That's what happened to Frankie Carrillo and that's the story you're going to hear today. |
| 1:48.0 | And it's not quite the sob story you might imagine. |
| 1:52.0 | Sure you might be moved and you might be outraged but I'm pretty sure you'll also feel |
| 1:58.4 | uplifted. |
| 2:01.3 | Here's Frankie Carrillo. |
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