thrilled to be joined today by Jamie Sell and Donna Waters.

Donna is the author of Wrong Ride Home, which is a story of Austin Burke being accused of a crime that they're trying to show he didn't commit.

And Jamie is his mother.

So I want to thank both you all for coming to True Crimecast and giving us some of your

time and we're very interested to dig into the story. Thank you. Thank you. So Donna Jamie,

whoever wants to go first, I guess just introduce us to the story. What happened when? You know, just let us know kind of the

details we need to know before we can move forward. So this started in 2017. Sample was a young

man from the community that had come up missing. There was a social media blitz saying that he was missing and describing

the last time that his family had talked to him. And in this social media blitz, they had my son's,

you know, name.

And they were saying that he was from the Bristol area, that he had some tattoos,

and basically describing him as the last person to see Brandon Sample alive.

And so naturally that caused the community to contacting Austin and our family. And so we were getting, Austin was getting

hundreds of friend requests and people messaging him and asking him questions on social media.

And of course, you know, me and his younger brother were also getting, you know, barrages of messages and inquiries as well.

Donna, do you want to say something?

Well, I got involved in the case after meeting Jamie at a wrongful conviction summit in Michigan.

And I wasn't sure what I could do because my first novel was the reason I was at that wrongful conviction summit.

My sister was wrongly convicted and I wrote her story also.

And I was there promoting Speak to Truth Justice for Miss America.

And when I first saw Jamie, like there was, there was connections

immediately. I thought I was going to retire to Ward Ohio. That was my retirement city.

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