The Wrongful Convictions of Arthur Almendarez, John Galvan, and Francisco Nanez

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.6 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week we are discussing the wrongful convictions of Arthur Almendarez, John Galvan, and Francisco Nanez after a fire took place in an apartment complex in Chicago.

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0:00.0	You're going to. Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast a true crime
0:27.9	podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa hi Melissa.
0:31.8	Hi Melissa. Hi Mandy, how are you?
0:34.0	I'm very hot and actually it means something this time,
0:38.0	even though we say it all the time,
0:40.0	but I don't know if you heard the news
0:42.0	that we just had like the hottest day on record like globally
0:46.3	a few days ago. They said that like I don't know how they measure that I'm sure it's like an average
0:50.9	like a global average but it was like the hottest
0:53.7	day that we've ever recorded so I fully believe it I think they said it was what July
0:57.6	5th yeah or maybe the third no I thought it was fourth or something but maybe you're
1:02.3	right on the fifth yeah it was one of those sometime
1:04.9	between the third and the fifth which this year felt so weird because the holiday was like in the
1:10.5	middle of the week and so we had like the weekend and then a Monday and a Tuesday so honestly I feel like every day was a blur but it was truly so hot
1:18.7	here in Florida and apparently everywhere else so I know yeah so what you guys felt bad day was what we feel every day
1:26.4	every day yeah but we're trucking along It's insane to think that we're in July.
1:35.0	Again, that's something we say all the time, but it really is. I'm done getting old.
1:39.0	I feel like I just don't want to get older. I want the time to stop.
1:42.0	Wow, that like really took a bunch of
1:44.1	turns and one it was like I don't want to talk about this anymore I'm also getting
1:48.3	older like I don't even know how we got there was it like calendars just like
1:52.0	really snuck in there on you I don't know I don't
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