Introducing: Unjust & Unsolved

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True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 11.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

FAM!! We are so excited to introduce Obsessed Network's newest podcast, "Unjust & Unsolved" with Maggie Freleng! Each week, Maggie tells the story of a person who, the evidence shows, was wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn't commit. You can find and subscribe to "Unjust & Unsolved" wherever you get your podccasts.

For episode 1, Maggie is telling the story of Ronnie Long. AND YOU NEED TO KNOW, AFTER MAGGIE WAS THROUGH REPORTING THE STORY, THERE WAS MAJOR NEWS IN THE CASE! SO STAY TUNED TILL THE END TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED!

In 1976 Concord, NC, a man broke into the home of a prominent white widow and violently beat and raped her. Ronnie Long, a 20-year-old black man, was given consecutive life sentences for rape and burglary. In a mostly segregated town, Ronnie was convicted by an all white jury, with no evidence linking him to the crime, an alibi, and only a shaky witness ID from the survivor. Since then, it was revealed that the prosecution witheld exculpatory evidence for Ronnie. There is also DNA evidence Ronnie is trying to get tested to prove who the real attacker was. Ronnie, now 64, has spent 44 years in prison; however, major updates happened during this case while we were reporting it.

Learn more about Ronnie's case and how to help:
https://freeronnielongnow.org/

For more information and a complete list of sources for this episode, visit www.unjustandunsolved.com

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0:00.0	Hey fam, Patrick here. I am so so excited to announce that today is the day we released
0:12.0	the brand new Obsessed Network Podcast, Unjust and Unsolved with Maggie Freeling.
0:18.4	Episodes 1 and 2 are available right now. So when you're done listening to this episode,
0:23.4	go find Unjust and Unsolved wherever you get your podcasts to get episode 2 instantly.
0:29.8	Unsolved is a podcast about wrongful convictions. We've been working on this podcast for over 18
0:35.6	months and I could not be more proud of the results. And before we get to the episode, I just wanted
0:41.2	to let you know that episode 1, which you're listening to right now, was completely finished and
0:47.0	ready to go. And then there was major, major news in the case. And we had to redo the entire thing.
0:53.6	So make sure you stay tuned to the very end to find out what happened. You can find
0:58.3	Unjust and Unsolved wherever you get your podcasts. As I mentioned, episode 2 is available right
1:03.8	now wherever you listen. So I hope you'll go and subscribe. Okay, now to the episode.
1:13.6	My name is Maggie Freeling, a major journalist and producer and this is Unjust and Unsolved.
1:20.7	A podcast about people who I believe are wrongfully incarcerated for crimes that are actually
1:27.2	unsolved. You've surely heard stories like these on the news, but the thing is the ones you've
1:32.8	heard about barely scratch the surface. The Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate that
1:38.9	about 20,000 innocent people are currently locked away in US prisons. After reading some of these
1:46.4	stories, I felt compelled to do something. So I sent 20 letters to people who are locked up
1:51.9	despite evidence pointing away from them. Some responded through mail, some emailed, and some
1:58.0	called me on contraband cell phones. But all wanted their stories to be heard. So I left my public
2:04.4	radio job and decided to do just that. In each episode, I speak with those people, their loved
2:12.4	ones, supporters and lawyers, to shed light on how they wound up incarcerated for decades,
2:18.3	despite the evidence and how that means the crimes they were convicted of are still unsolved.
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