Susan Simpson's Podcast Proof Credited with the Release of Two Wrongfully Convicted Georgia Men after 25 Years in Prison
Georgia Innocence Project
In its first season, our colleague Susan Simpson’s newest podcast Proof has been credited with securing the release of two wrongfully convicted Georgia men after 25 years in prison.
The podcast website describes its first season as follows:
On an October night in 1996, a gunshot rattles the walls of a double-wide trailer on the outskirts of Rome, Georgia. 15-year-old Brian Bowling is laying on the floor of his room, head bleeding from a gunshot wound. By the next morning, Brian is dead. Investigators quickly conclude that Brian’s wound was self-inflicted, the tragic result of teenage bravado. And yet within six months, two friends are arrested and accused of plotting to kill Brian. Cain Joshua Storey and Darrell Lee Clark are convicted and sentenced to life in prison, where they remain today. An evil teenage plot? Or a blatant miscarriage of justice? In this first season of PROOF, Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis drive the back roads of Rome, searching for the truth.
Barely a year and a half after the investigation conducted by Susan and her podcast colleagues began, Cain Storey and Clark are now free after serving a quarter of a century in prison. According to one of Clark’s defense attorneys, “We would not be where we are but for the good investigative work these podcasters did.”
Simpson’s success has been widely reported in the national media, e.g.:
Susan is Of Counsel to the firm, and frequently assists the firm’s attorneys on matters that involve factually complex issues requiring her investigative skills. Her investigative true-crime podcast Proof is widely available on all the main platforms.