The Reckoning
2/9/202643 min
Tonya is behind bars again. The only thing that can free her is evidence nobody bothered to consider the first time. And if they dismissed her story fifty years ago – why would they trust it now?
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Speaker 3· Soundbite0:42
Margo Freshwater was finally recaptured in Ohio in 2002. Now she's in prison here in Tennessee. But Freshwater says she didn't do the crime that landed her a 99-year sentence, and she has the evidence to prove it.
Cooper Moll· Host1:02
The Memphis newscasters made it sound like her lawyers could just fight their way back into court.
Speaker 4· Soundbite1:07
Lawyers for Freshwater say this could be the breakthrough that they're looking for. Evidence could be presented that was never heard before, evidence that is a jailhouse statement from an informant saying that Freshwater is not the killer. And her lawyers say if this doesn't work, they will continue to fight.
Cooper Moll· Host1:25
Fighting was easy. Getting a judge to even open the door was