I Served 44 Years For A Crime I Didn't Commit

Other People’s Lives

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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We speak with Ronnie Long just weeks after he was released from prison. Ronnie was convicted of rape and burglary in 1976 and served 44 years before it was determined he was wrongfully convicted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm disappointed in a system that failed me.
0:04.0	I'm disappointed in a system that it took me
0:06.5	fought that four years to prove my innocence
0:09.9	with the type of evidence that I have.
0:12.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:20.3	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:21.2	Welcome back to other people's lives.
0:22.5	I'm Joe Sanagato.
0:23.8	I'm Greg Dybeck.
0:24.9	Just want to give a quick shout out to all of our patrons
0:26.7	out there on patreon.com slash opl show if you sign up.
0:29.9	You get bonus episodes and you also get a look
0:32.7	behind the scenes of how me and Greg go through our process
0:36.0	every single week.
0:37.4	So go check that out.
0:38.8	Yeah, and today we'll be speaking with a man
0:41.3	by the name of Ronnie Long.
0:43.4	And to understand Ronnie's story, we have to travel back
0:47.4	a little bit to 1976 to Concord, North Carolina,
0:51.5	where a woman's house was broken into.
0:53.9	She was violently beaten and raped.
0:56.2	And that woman was an older widow.
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