Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis: Podcasters helped set Georgia men free 25 years after murder conviction
ROME, GEORGIA: Darrell Lee Clark and his co-defendant Cain Joshua Storey walked out of the Floyd County Jail on Thursday night, December 8, as free men. They were both 17 when they were arrested for the 1996 shooting death of 15-year-old Brian Bowling.
After investigative podcasters Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis began scrutinizing the case in their true-crime podcast 'Proof' in 2021, they discovered two critical pieces of information that led to the release, as stated by the Georgia Innocence Project. First, the party hostess, a key witness in the case, was coerced into giving false statements and testimony regarding the remarks Storey and Clark purportedly made; police threatened that they would take her children from her if she failed to comply with their demands. And second, a hearing and speech-impaired man had been misunderstood at trial due to his unique way of communicating. In 1976, the man had witnessed an unrelated, factually similar shooting and he was unable to effectively separate the facts of that case from the circumstances surrounding Bowling’s 1996 shooting death.
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