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True Crimecast

True Crime To-Go - The Happiest Prisoner

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Joe Arridy was arrested for murder and destined for the gas chamber. Would he be saved at the last minute? Or was this a horrible lesson for our justice system to learn?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crimecast--4106013/support.

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0:45.0

Yeah, I'd like a large order of wrongful conviction with a side of execution please.

0:58.0

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1:07.4

Welcome to True Crime to Go. I am John here with Jamie. That doesn't sound as fun as our usual true crime to go cases. It's not. Here's the thing. I found out about this case.

1:11.7

It popped up on a Tik-talk and I thought I need to talk about this immediately. So we're going to do it here on true crime to go and give a breakdown. It may come around to a full episode. We'll have to wait and see. I feel like this story is packed so we're going to just

1:24.0

take off man. So we're going to talk about a guy named Joe Araday and he was an innocent

1:29.4

soul and I don't know if you want me to go into it and do a little spoiler alert, but he was executed for crimes that he did not commit.

1:37.6

Those crimes included rape and murder of two local teenage girls that he never knew.

1:44.3

On January 6 of 1939, Joe, who was mentally challenged that said he had an IQ of only 46 and he

1:51.8

was 23 years old at the time faced death without really

1:55.8

understand what it was happening. Everybody had always said that he was a

1:59.2

sweet young man but mentally as a 23 year old man he had the mind of a six-year-old man, he had the mind of a six-year-old, and his only concern

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