S3 Ep9: Kimberly Long
Actual Innocence
Brooke Gittings
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Kimberly Long had her freedom and her children taken away from her, all because of a crime she did not commit. This is Kimberly's story...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Kimberly Long, and I spent seven years in three months in prison for a crime I did not commit. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, this is DeMarco. I'm here with Brooke, and you're listening to actual innocence, our podcast, bringing awareness to wrongful convictions and problems with the justice system. |
| 0:19.0 | How are you doing this week, Brooke? |
| 0:20.7 | I am doing amazing. I just got back from vacation. How are you doing this week, Brooke? I am doing amazing. I just got back |
| 0:22.3 | from vacation. How are you doing? I'm doing good. Where did you go? I went to Disney World. I know |
| 0:27.7 | that I'm an adult, but Disney World is still my favorite place in the entire world. Wow. I've never |
| 0:34.0 | been there, but I do want to go one day. I would love for you to go to. It's amazing because, I mean, I love the rides and I love the characters and I love the music, |
| 0:43.1 | but what I really love about Disney World is that everyone is nice. |
| 0:48.3 | I love an environment of nice people. |
| 0:51.5 | What did you do this week? |
| 0:52.4 | Are you moved yet? |
| 0:53.6 | Yes, I'm actually moved. So what I've |
| 0:56.6 | been doing is sitting here reminiscing, daydreaming, whatever you want to call it, because just |
| 1:05.0 | 16 months ago, I was in prison with a life in 170 years, fantasizing, daydreaming, thinking |
| 1:15.6 | that one day, hoping one day I'll be out, I'll be free. |
| 1:19.9 | And all the things that I fantasize and dreamed about now, I'm here, I'm doing those |
| 1:26.8 | things. |
| 1:31.1 | And life is on a good, I'm on a good path right now you know and the thing about all this is like I said that when I get out I want to be |
| 1:37.5 | you know I want to go to a thunder gang you know I've been to a thunder game I got to meet |
| 1:42.6 | Russell Westbrook I took pictures with him and I was up close and personal talking to him and all the Oklahoma City Thunder players, and that was a good feeling. And I met Be Legit, who's a rapper who I grew up listening to. That was wonderful experience. And, you know, I'm meeting a lot of great people, and I've met a lot of great people, |
| 2:01.0 | and people, opportunities have been coming my way, and I'm taking advantage of them, and, you know, |
| 2:06.0 | I've been enjoying myself. |
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