The Last Surrender | EP 6 | Season 2

Burden of Guilt

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True Crime

4.2 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bobby Gumpright thought confessing would set him free, but it led him to his lowest point. Forced to reckon with his addiction, he finally faces the man he sent to prison 22 years earlier.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.8	After I heard Germain was set free, I just breathed a sigh of relief.
0:11.2	I thought that the thing that was holding me back all my life had been taken care of.
0:17.3	As we told you in the last episode,
0:20.2	Jermaine Hudson agreed to plead guilty to the armed robbery Bobby Gumpbright made up.
0:26.6	Germain always said he was innocent, but after being incarcerated for 22 years, he didn't care anymore.
0:34.8	I was actually going to plead guilty to that crime. Y'all can have that conviction.
0:40.3	I just need to get home to my daughter.
0:42.3	I need to get my life back on track.
0:45.3	Dermaine was just days away from pleading guilty to a crime he didn't commit,
0:50.3	a crime that was made up.
0:52.3	But at the last possible moment, it turned out Tremaine didn't need, a crime that was made up. But at the last possible moment,
0:55.5	it turned out Germain didn't need to plead guilty.
0:59.2	Bobby confessed to his lie,
1:01.4	and the very next day, Germain was released.
1:05.2	For Bobby, the news that Germain was now a free man,
1:09.0	that his life and his liberty was returned to him was almost unbelievable.
1:17.0	I don't know exactly what the process was.
1:20.3	All I know is that the very next day,
1:23.0	they said he was out.
1:28.7	That's unheard of.
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