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We go into the emergency room and the lady starts asking what's going on.

And my dad's like, yeah, we just don't know what's going on.

And she goes, well, maybe it has something to do with the track marks on his arm.

And my dad's like, what are you talking about?

I'm Nancy Glass.

This is Season 2 of Burden of Guilt.

Episode 4, Tell Me Your Story.

In March of 2000, Bobby Gumpright falsely testified that Jermaine Hudson robbed him at gunpoint.

And as you heard in the last episode,

the crime never happened.

Bobby was desperate to hide his drug addiction from his parents,

so he used the armed robbery story

to explain the reason he had no money from his bartending job.

For Bobby, addiction and deception fed each other in a continuous loop.

The lies kept the addiction alive and the addiction kept him insulated from consequences.

Back in 2000, Bobby convinced himself he was helping police out by testifying against

Germain at trial. They described Germain as a dangerous career criminal. But as Bobby got

older, the full weight of what he had masterminded became impossible to live with. It would be a long, winding route to get

the truth out there. Bobby spent years trying to outrun himself, reinventing his life, starting

over again and again, all while Germain was stuck in Angola prison with no hope of ever living as a free man.

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