Almost a decade after Susan Simpson started podcasting to share what she and others discovered about a murder case that captivated the nation, she’s helped exonerate seven prisoners, including several from Georgia, in her quest for the truth.
Simpson, who lives in Washington, D.C., unearthed critical information in murder cases from her mother’s home city of Rome and other parts of Floyd County. As a result of the work Simpson did for her podcasts, three wrongly convicted men are free after serving a combined 73 years of their life sentences.
“I’m just glad the truth finally came to light after 25 years,” Daryl “Lee” Clark said when exonerated in 2022. “I’m so thankful for the Georgia Innocence Project and ‘Proof’ podcast for what they did. Without them, I would still be in prison.”…