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Podcast: Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Episode: Introducing - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance - Preview
Description: On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder,Β and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; βHe paid me to do it.βΒ David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a βliveβ investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memph...