Robin "Rocky" Myers: Road to Redemption Ch. 1 - DEATH ROW

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Here in Alabama, a black man named Robin "Rocky" Myers sits on death row where he's been since 1994. He's run out of appeals and awaiting an execution date. There's just one problem. Rocky might be innocent.

In Chapter 1 of Rocky's story, we introduce a high level overview of the story. Who is Rocky? What was the crime? And how did Rocky get wrapped up in it? Who are the key players? This episode will set up what's to come.

Next week, we'll go to trial...

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. it's Jen.
0:25.4	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.7	And this is Corpus delicti.
0:28.4	Welcome to our latest series.
0:31.7	This is actually going to be about one person.
0:35.0	Right now, it's going to be about five chapters or five episodes long,
0:38.9	but it's worth it. Potentially more. And I'm sure you guys have heard by now that our next series
0:45.3	was or is Alabama Crimes, and we are going to start off in a way that we didn't anticipate. So little backstory here. We had
0:57.3	a listener named Tracy reach out to us and she recommended a case, which happens a lot. We gather
1:03.9	them, we look through them. But with the Alabama series coming up, this one was in Alabama.
1:09.8	And so we were like, well, let's look at it. And we're like,
1:11.8	oh, this is really interesting. And it has snowballed and turned into a huge, not only story, but an
1:20.4	actual project, which we will talk about at the end of this episode. But this is going to kick off the Alabama series, but it is a series
1:29.5	of its own. It's called Road to Redemption, and it is about a man in Alabama on death row.
1:36.7	So let's get rolling. Road to Redemption, Chapter 1, Death Row. Our story begins at Holman Correction Facility at Atmore, Alabama.
1:48.2	This is Iscumbia County in the most southern part of the state.
1:52.1	It's about 82 miles up from Gulf Shores.
1:56.5	Holman is currently home to 307 inmates.
2:00.7	It is also the primary facility for death row inmates,
2:04.9	having 170 death row sales. And this is the only one that carries out executions.
2:12.8	In 2016, Holman Prison was said to be the most violent prison in the country. There were stabbing
2:19.2	happening regularly, according to inmates, and it earned the nickname of Slaughterhouse. Now, luckily,
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