Introducing: Burden of Guilt Season 2

Burden of Guilt Season 2, hosted by Nancy Glass, tells the story of a devastating lie that sent an innocent man to prison for life—until a confession changed everything, forcing a reckoning with guilt, justice, and redemption.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
I'm Nancy Glass, host of The Burden of Guilt Season
two podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie
that destroyed two families. This is a story with twists
and turns that will leave you breathless.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is the sentence of this court that you serve
ninety nine years in the Department of preak.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
It starts more than twenty five years ago, when New
Orleans was overwhelmed with gun violence. Late one night, eighteen
year old Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
He pulls the gun and tells me to lie down
on the ground.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Police were determined to find the man terrorizing the West
Bank of New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
They said, do you recognize any of these men. I
pointed at one and I said, that's him.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
He identified twenty year old Jermaine Hudson as the perpetrator.
Jermaine was trying and convicted, with Bobby as the star witness,
and he was sentenced to ninety nine years in the
notorious angal of prison.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
I got to be dreaming, accepting. I'm like, Lord, this
can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
How did eighteen year old Bobby come Bright, convince the police,
the prosecutors, and a jury that your main hudson should
be in prison.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I couldn't stop myself. After lying for so long, I
learned the best lie is partial truth.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I didn't do this.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
This can't be the end.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
This can't be the end of me.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
For twenty two years, only two people knew the truth
until a confession changed everything.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
You might see my picture on the front page of
the New York Times as this horrible monster. I was
a monster.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Listen to Burden of Guilt season two, starting February eleventh,
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get
your podcasts.