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Introducing - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance - Preview
On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death & Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish?
New episodes of The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance are available every Tuesday and Friday wherever you get your podcasts. To binge the entire season, ad-free, subscribe to True Crime Clubhouse on Apple podcasts.
17 Sept 2025
Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County: Preview
In Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY, Maggie Freleng takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. Maggie is the latest investigator to get pulled in. And she’ll take all of us along as she teases out this complicated web of rumors and lies, and perhaps even the truth.
In this special preview of Episode 1, we hear from Victoria Caldwell. Her account of the killing of Jessica Currin would become the driving force in the conviction of Quincy Cross and others for the murder of Jessica Currin.
To hear this chapter in its entirety, visit Lava for Good/Graves County (https://lavaforgood.com/graves-county/)
Graves County is hosted by Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction, and is executive produced by Gilbert King.
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Graves County is a production of Lava for Good (https://lavaforgood.com/)™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1 (https://www.signalco1.com/).
We have worked hard to ensure that all facts reported in this show are accurate. The views and opinions expressed by the individuals featured in this show are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Lava for Good.
7 Jul 2025
Introducing: Get the Money and Run, Ep. 1 - "First Time Out"
“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.”
That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Joe was one of California’s most daring bank robbers. He used disguises, body doubles, speeding getaway cars…and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, even as the FBI was closing in. Joe was also a soul searcher, driven by a dark rage he set out to understand. To do that he must understand why trying to murder his father felt so good.
Get the Money and Run immerses you, the listener, into the world of Joe Loya. This podcast is a fast-moving and entertaining listen that keeps you locked in from start to finish.
Get the Money and Run is a production of Western Sound, aCast Studios and Orbit Media Inc.
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Introducing - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance - Preview
Published 2 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The murder of a mother of five in her own home stunned the small town of Alliance, Ohio. David had recently been ordered to pay child support, $351 a month. And Joe said in his confession that he was hired by David Thorn to kill Yvonne so he didn't have to pay. And so he could have his son to himself. The father of one of the children, the motive child support Thorn was ordered to pay. To the untrained listener at one point myself too, this seems like a pretty clear cut case, someone confessing, and someone with a motive. But when you start speaking, going through documents and talking to people, the more complicated things get. […]
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