When they cleaned out the cell after the execution in 1973, they found a guitar worn, scratched, strings broken from years of playing. On the back, carved into the wood with something sharp, maybe a spoon, maybe a nail, were four words: gift from a stranger. The prison guards didn’t know who’d sent it. The…
I know. >> I AIN’T GOING TO GET TO SEE HIM NOW. I TOLD YOU. >> Was he at the hospital when she was born? >> Yes. >> No, [music] he wasn’t. No, he wasn’t in the hospital of your honor. >> He wasn’t there when you were born. >> He asked me where [music]…
The flashing light appeared in his rear view mirror just past 14th Street. Red and blue strobing against the November dark bouncing off the black paint of a 1990 MercedesBenz doing 60 on the belt parkway. Eddie Lino saw it and did what most people do. He pulled over. The unmarked car slid in behind…
Your honor, they were living together [music] as of a couple of months ago. >> Miss Johnson and the ex >> and the ex the ex had on social network, >> but I had already had the baby. I had already had her. It was this year when my ex was living with me. [music]…
Oh my god. >> Hours in labor. >> He literally >> And you CHOSE TO LAY ON >> TOLD YOU THAT WHEN I first met back up again. >> Janelle told me that when she such a lie. I said that >> she showed me her birth certificate because she had she needed an ID…
In June of every year, a procession of open topped carriages rolls through the gates of Windsor Great Park and makes its way along the final stretch toward the racecourse at Ascot in Berkshire. The horses are matched bays moving in a collected trot that looks effortless only because of years of training. The crowd…
Take me off child support, baby. >> Mr. Adams, you done come to the wrong courtroom clowning. This is not a joke. Mr. Lewis and my ex will always sneak on the phone with each other. I don’t know what they talk about. >> Sneaking on the phone together, but they obviously got a lot…
Athens, December 1943. The garden soil crumbled beneath her hands, dark and cold in the winter night. Princess Alice of Battenburgg knelt in the palace grounds, mud staining the hem of her grey nuns habit. While three stories above her head, Nazi officers conducted another search of the palace. She placed the velvet pouch…
You probably know John F. Kennedy as America’s 35th president. But did you know he had to be reminded to eat dinner, donated his entire salary to charity while scraping by on a $75 monthly grocery budget, and credited a beef soup recipe with helping him win …
There are moments in life that arrive without warning. Moments that look like one thing on the surface but turn out to be something else entirely underneath. This is one of those stories. And if you have lived long enough to know that sometimes the people who seem the most powerful are actually the most…
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