This is exactly right.

The Girlfriends is back with a new season, and this time I'm telling you the story of Kelly

Harnet.

Kelly spent over a decade in prison for a murder she says she didn't commit.

As she fought for her freedom, she taught herself the law.

He goes, oh God, Ar, in that jailhouse lawyer.

And became a beacon of hope for the women locked up alongside her.

You're supposed to have been faith in God, but I had nothing but faith in her.

I think I was put here to save souls by getting people out of prison.

The Girlfriends, Jailhouse Lawyer.

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podcasts. This story contains adult content and language. Listener discretion is advised.

You see throughout this book just these incredible anonymous heroes who went approached by someone who's not the cops that they will step up and do the right thing at great personal risk.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a nonfiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the co-host of the podcast Buried Bones on Exactly Right.

And throughout my career, research for my many audio and book projects has taken me around the world. On wicked words, I sit down with the people I've met along the way,

amazing writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters who have investigated and reported

on notorious true crime cases. This is about the choices writers make, both good and bad,

and it's a deep dive into the unpublished details behind their stories.

A gang in a mountain barrio in Honduras terrorized the people there for years.

The police claimed that their hands were tied because witnesses refused to testify.

But then an American sociologist

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