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Dec 2020
1h 19m

Wrongful Conviction: The Exoneration of ...

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This week in a special True Crime Daily Podcast: Our guest is Willie "Timmy" Donald, an Indiana man wrongly convicted of robbery and murder who served more than 20 years in prison before he was exonerated. We discuss how Mr. Donald went car-shopping with family one night in 1992 and ended up in a police lineup, how police and prosecutors let the wrong man go ... Show More
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