Podcast helps free 2 US men serving life in prison for murder

NEW YORK - Two Georgia men who were sentenced to life in prison in the 1996 shooting death of their friend were freed last week after a true-crime podcast helped uncover evidence of police misconduct in their cases, lawyers for both men said.

Just before he died, Bowling had told his girlfriend on the phone that he was playing Russian roulette with a gun that Storey, who was in the room, had brought to the house, the lawyers said. The men said in interviews this week that they would still be in prison if two podcasters, Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis, had not explored their case in detail in the podcast Proof, which has released 17 episodes so far.

Under a deal with prosecutors, Storey pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter for having brought the gun to Bowling’s house. He was sentenced to 10 years, time he has already served, said his lawyer, Luke Martin.“They found the truth and revealed it all, and I can’t express enough gratitude for what they did,” Clark said in an interview on Monday, praising both the podcasters and his lawyers at the Georgia Innocence Project.

Using the man’s former teacher as an interpreter, Simpson and Davis learned that the man had never actually seen Clark on the night of the shooting and that he was in fact recounting an unrelated but similar shooting that he had witnessed in 1976, the court documents said. The Floyd County Police Department declined to comment on the case, and the Floyd County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.Clark said he had been introduced to Simpson about four years ago by another prisoner represented by the Georgia Innocence Project, Joey Watkins, whose case was explored in the podcast Undisclosed, also co-hosted by Simpson.

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