I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast.

This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families.

This is a story with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.

It is the sentence of this court that you serve 99 years.

It starts more than 25 years ago when New Orleans was overwhelmed with gun violence.

Late one night, 18-year-old Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime.

He pulls the gun and tells me to lie down on the ground.

Police were determined to find the man terrorizing the West Bank of New Orleans.

They said, do you recognize any of these men?

I pointed at one and I said, that's him.

He identified 20-year-old Germain Hudson as the perpetrator. I pointed at one and I said, that's him.

He identified 20-year-old Germain Hudson as the perpetrator.

Germain was tried and convicted with Bobby as the star witness,

and he was sentenced to 99 years in the notorious Angola prison.

I got to be dreaming or something.

I'm like, Lord, this can't be real.

I thought it was a mistaken identity.

How did 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright convinced the police, the prosecutors, and a jury

that Jermaine Hudson should be in prison?

I couldn't stop myself.

After lying for so long, I learned the best lie is partial truth.

I didn't do this.

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