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Podcast: Arroe Collins Pod-Crashing
Episode: Pod Crashing Episode 284 News Journalist Beth Shelburne From The Podcast Ear Witness
Description: Pod Crashing Episode 284 With Beth Shelburne From Earwitness One July night in 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was shot behind the Crown Sterling Suites hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time as the murder, at least 10 people saw Toforest Johnson four miles away at a popular nightclub called Tee's Place. But detectives zeroed in on him as a main suspect in Deputy Hardy's murder anyway, ultimately resulting in Toforest being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. For over a quarter century, Toforest has been confined to a 5' by 8' cell on Alabama's death row. In 2019, investigative journalist Beth...