Podcasts True Crime Let's Go To Court! 215: Wrongfully Convicted People With The Last Name Brown

215: Wrongfully Convicted People With The Last Name Brown

Published: May 18, 2022, 11:30 a.m.

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We\\u2019ve got a theme! \\u2026. A weird, totally accidental theme! This week, we\\u2019re talking about wrongfully convicted people who also happen to have the last name Brown.\\xa0
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Brandi starts us off with the story of Sabina Kulakowski, a social worker who was discovered dead near her home. Her home had been set on fire and Sabina had been stabbed, bitten and strangled. Investigators had another suspect in their sights, but eventually locked in on Roy Brown. Roy was a decent enough suspect \\u2013 he\\u2019d been recently released from jail when Sabina was murdered. He also had a history of threatening social workers.\\xa0
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Then Kristin tells us about a robbery at a Dallas furrier. May 6, 1980, was supposed to be a typical day at Fine Furs by Rubin. Then two women walked in. One had a gun. The other held empty trash bags. One of the women shot and killed the store owner, Rubin Danziger, as the other filled the bags with valuable furs. The women fled, leaving behind Ala Danziger as an eyewitness to their crime. It didn\\u2019t take long for investigators to locate the women\\u2019s getaway car. It had been abandoned, with rental paperwork in the front seat. The paperwork indicated that it had been rented by a woman named Joyce Ann Brown.
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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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The \\u201cJoyce Ann Brown\\u201d episodes of Vindicated
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\\u201cJoyce Ann Brown, shackled by her name to another\\u2019s crime, dies at 68,\\u201d by Margalit Fox for the New York Times
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\\u201cJoyce Ann Brown,\\u201d entry on The National Registry of Exonerations
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\\u201cJoyce Ann Brown, exonerated after nearly a decade in prison, dies at 68,\\u201d by Emily Langer for the Washington Post
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\\u201cJoyce Ann Brown, exoneree who championed justice, dies at 68,\\u201d the Dallas Morning News
\\n\\u201cWrongful conviction charges haunt Dallas prosecutors,\\u201d by Paul Weingarten for the Chicago Tribune
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\\u201cJoyce Ann Brown,\\u201d entry on Bluhm Legal Clinic\\u2019s Center on Wrongful Convictions
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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cFreedom Fighter\\u201d episode Forensic Files
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\\u201cQuest for Freedom: The True Story of Roy Brown\\u201d by David Lohr, The Crime Library
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\\u201cWith DNA From Exhumed Body, Man Finally Wins Freedom\\u201d by Fernanda Santos, The New York Times
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\\u201cRoy Brown, who spent 15 years in prison for murder he did not commit, dies at 58\\u201d by Sarah Moses Buckshot, syracuse.com\\n
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\\u201cRoy Brown\\u201d innocenceproject.org
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