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Apr 2021
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Margo Freshwater

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Margo Freshwater grew up in Columbus, Ohio. In 1966, she made the decision to head to Memphis, Tennessee to try to get her boyfriend out of jail. She ended up having a relationship with the attorney, Glen Nash, who was supposed to help her boyfriend. Glen Nash had some severe mental health issues and began having delusions. Margo was with Glen when he murdered a number of people, and that fact got her convicted and a 99-year sentence.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the fascinating case of Margo Freshwater. Not long into her sentence, Margo escaped from a Tennessee women's prison and headed back home to Ohio. Over the next 32 years, she married multiple times, had children, and became a grandmother. But, the police eventually caught up with her and she was forced back to Tennessee. What would happy to this woman who had been a model citizen for 32 years?

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