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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Good kid, model student, high achiever – just a few of the descriptors bestowed on Sidney Powell during her high school years in Ohio. But college proved much more challenging, and some theorize that – rather than face her academic failures – Sidney turned on one of the people who loved her most. Is she a stone-cold murderer, or a young woman who suffered a mental break? On this episode of the Escape Pod, the co-hosts dive into a deep discussion about the desire to be perfect, and how that very mindset can be perfectly dangerous.

Bullet Points of Key Topics and Markers:

• Topic #1 2:00 Trying to escape our own negative thoughts

• Topic #2 14:46 Introduction to Sidney Powell

• Topic #3 26:45 A blood-curdling phone call

• Topic #4 32:28 A father speaks out

• Topic #5 42:45 Escapism, co-host-style!

Resources & Links

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3spm-V-8Q Law & Crime Network “Killer Daughter Beat, Stabbed Mom to Death to Cover Up College Failures”

• https://lawandcrime.com/crime/woman-who-beat-her-mom-with-skillet-stabbed-her-in-neck-nearly-30-times-to-conceal-suspension-from-college-is-sentenced-for-murder/

• https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2023/10/19/sydney-powell-convicted-stabbing-death-mother-brenda-powell-akron-ohio-insanity-plea/71238220007/

• https://people.com/sydney-powell-ohio-college-student-killed-mom-7972815

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goreXfyTaqY Crime Salad “The Murder of Brenda Powell”

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Hop in for a Halloween-inspired edition of the Escape Pod! This week, we turn up the volume on unexplained (and very eerie) encounters with people or things seemingly from “the beyond.” A deep-breathing, bodiless man? A spirit hell-bent on having clean hands? A ghost cat? Who knows?! But if you’re up for a (mostly) mild scare with a good dose of traumedy, then this episode is for you!

Bullet Points of Key Topics and Markers:

• Topic #1 1:13 Co-host goes on ghost tour.

• Topic #2 13:27 Meditating ghost gets caught on tape.

• Topic #3 17:36 Strange encounter following fatal crash has lasting impact.

• Topic #4 34:27 Child gets the last laugh.

• Topic #5 39:50 Ghost cat haunts a coffee shop? Maybe!

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