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Mar 2023
42m 41s

An Impossible Crime, Part 2

VOX MEDIA PODCAST NETWORK
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This episode continues where Episode 208 leaves off. In 2001, Daniel Taylor wrote a letter from prison to a reporter at the Chicago Tribune named Steve Mills. Steve Mills spent months investigating before publishing a detailed examination of Daniel’s case as part of a series called “Cops and Confessions.” Daniel told us, “To have someone finally say that the ... Show More
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