Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize winner, iHeartPodcast 2024 Social Impact Award Honoree and acclaimed host of Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, returns with compelling stories of redemption and justice in the newest season of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng starting March 5, 2026.
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Episode Transcript
If one of your loved ones had been killed, you
probably would have been like you, they're going to help me.
They always look at the family first.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I've spent years investigating cases where the system got it wrong,
and here's what I know. A verdict isn't the end
of the story, it's just the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I ristigma, you've seen a guy get shot. Why you're
standing up ex rist having to say the dude got
shot while he's laying on the ground, and they still
that this lady, check us fly alive.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm Maggie Freeling, Pulitzer winning journalist and host of Wrongful
Conviction with Maggie Freeling, and I'm so excited to be
back for season five.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Being a nobody black man from the streets of Detroit
where constitutional rights didn't exist at all, Magdine, I thought
they will kill me that night.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
This season will hear the harrowing experiences that led innocent
people into incarceration.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
One of the detectives got on the stand and said
there was blood all over the curtains. Well, guess what,
there were no curtains in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
These resilient people refuse to be defined by what was lost.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
My initial motivation was to turn myself into a weapon
so that I could fight back against the system that
had rolled over my life.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And turned that loss into purpose.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
When my feet hit the floor in the morning, I say,
I am fighting for those who can't. I am fighting
for all these people who are waiting for justice.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Listen to new episodes of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freeling
starting Mark fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts.
Hosts And Creators
Lauren Bright Pacheco
Maggie Freleng
Jason Flom
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