Investigating the Debra Milke Story with Jana Boomersbach — Transcript

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1. 0:00you know I love introducing a guest by
2. 0:03way of career titles in this case if I
3. 0:07do all of the career titles we'll be out
4. 0:09of time for the interview Janna
5. 0:11boomerspunk author television
6. 0:13personality journalist and
7. 0:17um and now podcaster give me a brief
8. 0:21review of podcasting with Jenna this is
9. 0:25so amazing I mean I I signed up with
10. 0:28this company called criminal minded
11. 0:30media to do a podcast they came to me
12. 0:32and said we want to do your books we
13. 0:34want you to do podcasts and tell you the
14. 0:36story of your books I thought oh that's
15. 0:37going to be simple dimple I just I've
16. 0:39written a book all I have to do is kind
17. 0:40of like maybe read the you know some
18. 0:42chapters and that's how you do a podcast
19. 0:43at all you say well no since you've been
20. 0:45at this thing for like 20 years so you
21. 0:47start telling the story and when you
22. 0:49tell the story verbally you tell it
23. 0:51differently than when you write it now
24. 0:53the one good thing about my writing is I
25. 0:55write very much like I speak so I am
26. 0:58able to sometimes like take sentences
27. 1:01that I've had or things that I've done
28. 1:03but it's it's retelling the story but in
29. 1:05a way that's far more I think Lively as
30. 1:08you know it's more intimate there's lots
31. 1:11the intonation of your of your voice you
32. 1:14can do a lot more in the podcast than
33. 1:17you can in the written page but one of
34. 1:18the stories in the written page that you
35. 1:20did that you may be at this point best
36. 1:23known for is winning Ruth judge the
37. 1:26trunk murderers from Phoenix Arizona
38. 1:29when people didn't know where Phoenix
39. 1:30Arizona was right but now as an
40. 1:33investigative reporter another woman in
41. 1:37the news and please tell us briefly why
42. 1:41you were attracted to the Deborah milky
43. 1:43story The Deborah milky story is one of
44. 1:45those stories that will horrify you once
45. 1:47you get inside for 25 years Pat I
46. 1:50thought this woman was a baby killing
47. 1:52I mean I agreed with the media that was
48. 1:55said oh she's guilty as hell she
49. 1:56confessed my God she confessed I felt
50. 1:58the same way reading the stories every
51. 2:00day every day every single day and 24
52. 2:03years later okay this girl was goes into
53. 2:05prison at 24 she's now almost 50. 24
54. 2:08years later the ninth Circuit Court says
55. 2:10either give this woman a fair trial or
56. 2:12set her free because this is ridiculous
57. 2:14I'm going how the hell did this happen
58. 2:16and so I started looking into the case
59. 2:18and the more I looked into it and found
60. 2:20that Arizona had done a horrible
61. 2:23Injustice this may be one of the
62. 2:25greatest injustices in the history of
63. 2:27jurisprudence in this country but why
64. 2:29her why is it that some prosecutor or
65. 2:33some team of prosecutors decided let's
66. 2:36get Deborah milky this was a this was a
67. 2:40get this was a get for the for the
68. 2:42detective who claimed she had confessed
69. 2:44to him when she had never confessed to
70. 2:45him because he was running for a
71. 2:47constable in a few months this was a get
72. 2:49for the prosecutor who became prosecutor
73. 2:52of the year for putting her in an on
74. 2:54death row this was they had what they
75. 2:56had is a little boy had been killed
76. 2:58horribly killed on his way to see Santa
77. 3:00Claus to really loser men had been
78. 3:04responsible for the actual killing right
79. 3:06that was like a nothingness right but
80. 3:08you had a beautiful young woman into
81. 3:10that a beautiful young mother 24 years
82. 3:12old oh she had to hate her kid she had
83. 3:14to be a terrible mother she was a single
84. 3:16mother who didn't want this kid she
85. 3:18orchestrated this whole thing you add
86. 3:20that to the mix and all of a sudden
87. 3:21you've got a far more Sensational case
88. 3:23and that's exactly what they had in some
89. 3:26way though somehow she was found to be
90. 3:29innocent of the crime and released so
91. 3:32there must be some compensation then for
92. 3:35the time that she spent in prison
93. 3:36wouldn't you think so wouldn't you think
94. 3:38so she sued the State of Arizona and she
95. 3:41sued the City of Phoenix and the police
96. 3:42department and everybody to try to get
97. 3:44compensation the judge eventually threw
98. 3:47it out not on any merits of the case but
99. 3:50on technicalities about if she had
100. 3:52supplied enough documentation if she had
101. 3:54thrown things away they were claiming in
102. 3:57court the the city's attorneys were
103. 3:59claiming in court that she had destroyed
104. 4:01evidence that she had collected while
105. 4:03she was in prison
106. 4:04she had what could you possibly do to
107. 4:08correct what's what had already happened
108. 4:09to her what could she possibly know and
109. 4:12and have have thrown away that was had
110. 4:15any any value on whether this the cop
111. 4:17had lied about her her confession which
112. 4:20was the whole the whole point of the
113. 4:21whole the sounding story it was then she
114. 4:24got nothing when everybody thought that
115. 4:25she was guilty right on death row and
116. 4:28now a citizen still of Arizona no she's
117. 4:32left Arizona I don't blame her you wrote
118. 4:35the book but you also doing your podcast
119. 4:37right in eight parts in eight parts okay
120. 4:39uh and you're gonna let us know when we
121. 4:42can find the pie okay when you could
122. 4:44find the podcast why don't you tell
123. 4:45everybody now where they can find the
124. 4:46book they can find the book on Amazon
125. 4:48they can find the book in bookstores
126. 4:50it's called a stolen Life the Deborah
127. 4:52milky story and I hope that they'll read
128. 4:55it because once you read this book you
129. 4:57will understand that this was a
130. 4:59magnificently horrible case and Arizona
131. 5:01has has should be ashamed of itself for
132. 5:04what it did to her well when you're
133. 5:06looking for the book and perhaps a
134. 5:08source that you might go to any of your
135. 5:10favorite bookstores and you're saying
136. 5:11well I'll just look the author up under
137. 5:14the spelling of her name just look for
138. 5:16Jenna boomersbach out of the question
139. 5:19except when you want to read about a
140. 5:23phenomenal exciting and annoying tale of
141. 5:26Injustice Jenna boomersbach has been on
142. 5:29the daily mix and I'm glad