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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Glass, host of The Burden of Guilt Season two podcast. This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. This is a story with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.

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Speaker 2: It is the sentence of this court that you serve ninety nine years in the Department of Wreak.

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Speaker 1: It starts more than twenty five years ago, when New Orleans was overwhelmed with gun violence. Late one night, eighteen year old Bobby Gumpright became the victim of a random crime.

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Speaker 3: He pulls the gun and tells me to lie down on the ground.

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Speaker 1: Police were determined to find the man terrorizing the West Bank of New Orleans.

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Speaker 3: They said, do you recognize any of these men. I pointed at one and I said, that's him.

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Speaker 1: He identified twenty year old Jermaine Hudson as the perpetrator. Jermaine was trying and convicted, with Bobby as the star witness, and he was sentenced to ninety nine years in the notorious angal of prison.

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Speaker 4: I got to be dreaming, accepting. I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. I thought it was a mistaken identity.

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Speaker 1: How did eighteen year old Bobby come bright, convince the police, the prosecutors, and a jury that your main hudson should be in prison.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't stop myself. After lying for so long, I learned the best lie is partial truth.

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Speaker 4: I didn't do this.

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Speaker 3: This can't be the end.

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Speaker 4: This can't be the end of me.

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Speaker 1: For twenty two years, only two people knew the truth until a confession changed everything.

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Speaker 3: You might see my picture on the front page of the New York Times as this horrible monster. I was a monster.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Burden of Guilt Season two on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.