A woman is brutally attacked and murdered in her Ohio home in 1998. The only witness? Her 6-year-old granddaughter, whose eye-witness account helps to convict her “Uncle Clarence.” But Clarence’s wife is certain he didn’t commit the crime, and she makes it her mission to prove it.

Join co-hosts Julie and Charity in the Escape Pod this week, where a wife’s amateur sleuth skills help an innocent man escape a life sentence.

Bullet Points of Key Topics and Markers:

• Topic #1 :35 Escaping bad backs, bladders, and bedtime habits.

• Topic #2 9:19 Escaping prison – but not in the way you think!

• Topic #3 24:47 The mind playing tricks with memories.

• Topic #4 30:19 Our OneHeart “Woohoo of the Week!”

Resources & Links

• https://video.hipstr.tv/feature/conviction-true-story-clarence-elkins

• https://innocenceproject.org/cases/clarence-elkins/#:~:text=On%20December%2015%2C%202005%2C%20a,crime%20he%20did%20not%20commit

• https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/02/wrongfully-convicted-man-challenges-ohio/23718232007/

• https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3202#:~:text=Early%20on%20the%20morning%20of,raped%20and%20left%20for%20dead

• https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3202

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