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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wrongful Conviction, False Confessions.

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Speaker 2: I'm Laura and I writer and I'm Steve Drissen.

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Speaker 1: In today's episode, will take you to Dayton, Ohio to

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Speaker 1: tell you about Tyra Patterson. Nineteen year old Tira falsely

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Speaker 1: confessed to stealing a necklace, but an obscure law turned

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Speaker 1: her false confession to robbery into something far worse.

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Speaker 2: I was sitting in my office one day in the

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Speaker 2: phone rank and on the other end of the call

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Speaker 2: was David Singleton, the director of a group called the

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Speaker 2: Ohio Justice and Policy Center. David was looking for somebody

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Speaker 2: who could assist him in a case that involved a

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Speaker 2: false confession. It was Tyra Patterson's case. We've told a

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Speaker 2: lot of stories about people who false confessed to murders

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Speaker 2: last season, but the crazy thing is, this is a

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Speaker 2: case where a false confession to robbery is converted into

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Speaker 2: a false conviction for murder, and it's all because of

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Speaker 2: an obscure, archaic rule called the felony murder doctrine. The

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Speaker 2: felony murder leads to people going down for murders who

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Speaker 2: never killed anyone.

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Speaker 1: When most people think about people in prison who they've

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Speaker 1: been convicted of murder. They think of truly bad people,

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Speaker 1: you know, scary folks. But there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in prison for murder who never touched a gun

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Speaker 1: or a murder weapon at all.

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Speaker 2: The prisons are filled with people convicted of felony murder,

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Speaker 2: people like Tyer Patterson.

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Speaker 1: Today's story starts in Dayton, Ohio. It was a manufacturing

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Speaker 1: town back in the day, but those jobs left in

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Speaker 1: the eighties and nineties and never came back. Eyton's claim

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Speaker 1: used to live there, Wilbur and Orville Wright. In fact,

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Speaker 1: our story starts in a part of town named after

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Speaker 1: the Wright brothers, a lower income, mixed race neighborhood called

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Speaker 1: Right View. It was just after midnight on a Tuesday

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Speaker 1: in Right View, September twentieth, nineteen ninety four. Tyra Patterson

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Speaker 1: was awake and bored. Tyra was nineteen and smart as

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Speaker 1: hell with a sunny personality. She was full of promise,

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Speaker 1: but there weren't many open doors in front of her.

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Speaker 1: Tyra's home life was really tough. Her dad was an

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Speaker 1: alcoholic who hit her mom when he'd been drinking. He

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Speaker 1: evicted when her mom couldn't pay the bills. Tyra dropped

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Speaker 1: out of school in sixth grade. She was tired of

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Speaker 1: the other kids bullying her about being poor. She got

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Speaker 1: a job at a fast food restaurant and they put

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Speaker 1: Tyra hadn't learned enough math to make change. She was

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Speaker 1: the job. By the time Tyra reached her late teens,

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Speaker 1: the family had found an apartment to live in again,

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Speaker 1: but Tyra had lost her way. She smoked a lot

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Speaker 1: of weed and tried not to think about how her

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Speaker 1: life could have been different. It was around two am

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Speaker 1: on September twentieth when Tyra's boring night started getting a

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Speaker 1: little too interesting. Tyra and her friend Rebecca were hanging

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Speaker 1: out at Tyra's place, and they decided to go for

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Speaker 1: a walk outside. They ran into five other young people

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Speaker 1: from right view. Tyra barely knew most of them, but

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Speaker 1: she and Rebecca stuck around anyway. The group was mixed

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Speaker 1: gender and mixed race. Five were black, including Tyra, and

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Speaker 1: our story. We're going to call all of them the

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Speaker 1: Right View Group. Sometime after two am, a gray Chevrolet

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Speaker 1: The Chevy was filled with five teenagers, all white girls

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Speaker 1: to steal stuff from people's garages. In the alley. Two

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Speaker 1: them on foot were three members of the Right View group, Lashawna, Angie,

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Speaker 1: Before the girls in the Chevy can drive away, another

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Speaker 1: prepared for what happens next. There's a confrontation. Everyone starts yelling.

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Speaker 1: no interest in violence. She tries to calm the situation down,

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Speaker 1: but no one listens. As the punch is intensify, Tyra

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Speaker 1: part of this, but as they leave, Tyra spots a

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Speaker 2: When Tyra picked up that necklace, at worst it was

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Speaker 2: a theft. It might not even have been a cry.

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Speaker 2: Picking up a necklace off the ground is not something

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Speaker 1: Right as Tyra's walking away, she hears words being yelled,

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Speaker 1: the chevy, eighteen year old Holly Lay, Please make them stop.

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Speaker 1: Holly calls, we don't have anything. Before Tyra can respond,

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Speaker 1: a gunshot rings out. Lashawna Keeney, part of the Right

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Speaker 1: Michelle Lay, Holly's fifteen year old sister. Michelle died instantly.

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Speaker 1: Later on, another one of the Right View girls, Angie,

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Speaker 1: expressed bewilderment that it all happened so fast. We just

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Speaker 1: meant to punk them out, she said within minutes, though,

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Speaker 1: punking out turned into murder. The moment the shots rang out,

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Speaker 1: only a few hundred feet away, where she panicked and

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Speaker 1: flushed the necklace down the toilet. She was afraid it

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Speaker 1: would connect her to a shooting she didn't commit. For

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Speaker 1: her part, Holly Lay got out of the Chevy and

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Speaker 1: started banging on doors, pleading desperately for someone, anyone to

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Speaker 1: call an ambulance help her sister. Eventually, someone did call

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Speaker 1: pretty good descriptions of both their assailants and the pit bull.

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Speaker 1: several people had been rounded up and the police were

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Speaker 1: knocking at Tyrastoor too. Before long, Tyra Patterson found herself

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Speaker 1: The police were angry. The shooting was tragic, and they

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Speaker 1: wanted to nail as many people as possible for murder,

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Speaker 1: not just Lashana who pulled the trigger, but the others too.

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Speaker 1: But how do you get someone who didn't kill anyone

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Speaker 1: to go down for murder. Well, one tool that police

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Speaker 1: and prosecutors have is that felony murder rule. We mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: This little known law can be the source of enormous injustice.

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Speaker 2: In its purest form, the felony murder rule is felony

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Speaker 2: you are convicted of first degree murder, even though you

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Speaker 2: never intended to kill somebody, Even though you couldn't have

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Speaker 2: foreseen that somebody would have died. It is the intent

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Speaker 2: to commit that felony that substitutes for the intent to kill.

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Speaker 2: They didn't coerce Tyra into confessing to murder because they

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Speaker 2: knew who before the interrogation who the murderer was. It

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Speaker 2: was Lashawnakiny. All they needed to do was get Tyra

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Speaker 2: to say that she grabbed a necklace by force from

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Speaker 2: one of the girls in the car. That's a robbery.

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Speaker 2: They could get her for the same murder that Lashawna

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Speaker 1: So getting Tyra to say she snatched the necklace instead

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Speaker 1: of picking it up is what this interrogation is all about. Now,

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Speaker 1: like all interrogations that aren't fully recorded, there are two

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Speaker 1: story told by the defendant. They almost always diverge. In

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Speaker 1: Tyra's case, the police story goes like this. Tyra admitted

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Speaker 1: assault or shooting. But as she was being booked, Tyra

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Speaker 1: of events. Here's David Singleton, that lawyer who called Steve

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Speaker 4: Tyra recalls very clearly the detective screaming at her, saying

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Speaker 4: she's a murderer, that she's going to be locked up

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Speaker 4: for the rest of her life, cursing at her, telling

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Speaker 4: her she's an effing liar, because Tyra was saying, I

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Speaker 4: didn't rob anybody, I didn't shoot anybody. Eventually, the detective

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Speaker 4: past where Tyra could see Rebecca sitting in a police

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Speaker 4: car about to go home. And Tyra's like, well, you

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Speaker 4: know Rebecca's going home. Why am I not going home.

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Speaker 4: The detective said, well, she gave us a videotape statement,

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Speaker 4: The detective said, well, you don't have anything to tell us,

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Speaker 4: and Tyra said, well, I picked up a necklace from

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Speaker 4: the ground, and the sector smiled and took her back

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Speaker 1: The police tell Tyra she just needs to change one

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Speaker 1: thing in her story about the necklace. She didn't pick

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Speaker 1: it up off the ground. Instead, she robbed it from

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Speaker 1: the girls. After all, they say, wouldn't it be better

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Speaker 1: to go down for a robbery than for murder? Getting

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Speaker 1: caught up in a murder is what Tyra's been terrified

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Speaker 2: Is a necklace, thank big goal.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a huge irony in this case. They

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Speaker 1: And like too many murder trials, Tyra's was a shit show.

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Speaker 1: And that's how Tira Patterson, the woman who never touched

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Speaker 1: She was sentenced to forty three years to life. That's

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Speaker 1: And in December nineteen ninety five, Tira Patterson became Ohio

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Speaker 1: Fast forward to twenty eleven, Tira Patterson had been in

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Speaker 2: Tyra tried to stop this from happening. She walked away

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Speaker 2: that led to Michelle Lay's death. It is grossly unfair

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Speaker 1: But Tyra's hopes of freedom were dashed a few months later.

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Speaker 1: That's when David Singleton got involved. He'd heard about her

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Speaker 2: There's no DNA miracle for people like Tyra and for

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. Even if the shooter had left

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Speaker 2: What she needed here was a reinvestigation, an advocacy.

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Speaker 1: As David and Steve dove into the case against Tyra,

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Speaker 1: It had actually been someone else. Second, David uncovered the

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Speaker 1: Third, David talked to some of the other Right View girls,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State Senator Peggy Lanner visited Tyra in prison, and

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Speaker 1: Celebrities and advocates also began getting involved, everyone from actor

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Speaker 4: This I Am Tyra Patterson campaign the hashtag. What it

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Speaker 1: You know, I think the first time I heard the

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Speaker 2: That was take five of that video, because the first

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Speaker 1: I could have been Tyra Patterson.

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Speaker 2: Now, my child could have been Tyra Patterson.

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Speaker 4: That's how Tyra became, in my view, her best advocate.

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Speaker 4: It was exposing people to her so that they could

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Speaker 1: One person this message reached was the victim's sister.

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Speaker 4: Twenty sixteen is when Holly Lay got in touch with me,

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Speaker 1: On the night of the crime, Holly had seen one

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Speaker 1: Holly agreed to support Tyra's release. In twenty seventeen, Tyra

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Speaker 1: On Christmas morning, she walked out of prison, bent down

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Speaker 4: She's my colleague now at the Ohio Justice and Policy Center.

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Speaker 4: She's soaring in her job as our community relations expert.

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Speaker 4: She speaks multiple times a week to different community groups,

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Speaker 4: She is the brains behind this social justice mural that

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Speaker 5: Hey, Steve, how are.

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Speaker 1: You, hey? Tyra? It's Laura.

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Speaker 5: I am so.

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Speaker 2: Tyra was living in an apartment for a while and

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Speaker 1: Yes, what was it like to have your in place?

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Speaker 1: After being in prison so long.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, the private sea. No yelling, no strimming,

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Speaker 5: no arguing.

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Speaker 2: It was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I slept like a baby.

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Speaker 2: I felt alive.

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Speaker 1: Man, if I were you, first thing I would have

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Speaker 1: done is like stood in the shower for three hours.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing like a long shower.

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Speaker 5: No, Laura, I didn't even do that. I stayed in

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Speaker 5: a bathtub for three hours. Yes, you know, in prison,

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Speaker 5: we didn't get to take a bath. So all I

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Speaker 5: a bubble bath.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go take a bubble bath in your honor

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Speaker 1: to see if I love you. Tyra hasn't given up

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Speaker 1: on exoneration. She and her legal team are still fighting

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Speaker 1: to clear her name. If you want to follow Tyra's

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Speaker 1: case and send her a message of support, look her

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Speaker 1: up on Instagram at Tyra dot Imani dot seven seven seven.

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Speaker 1: She inspires Steve and me every day. That's the story

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Speaker 1: of Tira Patterson. Join us next week when we'll tell

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Speaker 1: you about Ronald Kitchen, who was tortured by Chicago police

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Speaker 1: into falsely confessing to murder, and it turns out he

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Speaker 1: was far from the only one. We'll talk about how

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Speaker 1: Ronald got his freedom, and how the city's police torture

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Speaker 1: scandal got exposed. Wrongful Conviction, False Confessions is a production

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Speaker 1: of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Company

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Speaker 1: Number one Special thanks to our executive producers Jason Flamm

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Speaker 1: and Kevin Wardis. Our production team is headed by Senior

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Speaker 1: producer and Pope, along with producers Joshi Hammer and Jess Shane.

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Speaker 1: Our show is mixed by Genie Montalvo. John Colbert is

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Speaker 1: our intrepid intern. Our music was composed by Jay Ralph.

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Speaker 1: You can follow me on Instagram or Twitter at Laura

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