NEW: Groveland Four Exoneration

"Mind Over Murder" podcast hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley discuss the case of the Groveland Four, four young Florida men who were charged with raping a young woman in a 1949 rape that likely never occurred. They were recently exonerated by the State of Florida after being railroaded by a corrupt Lake County, Florida sheriff, deputies, investigators and judges.NYT: Four Black Men Wrongly Charged With Rape Are Exonerated 72 Years LaterThe men, known as the Groveland Four, were cleared on Monday after a Florida prosecutor said “a complete breakdown of the criminal justice system” led to the charges in 1949.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/us/groveland-four-exonerated-florida.htmlPeople: 'Groveland Four' Posthumously Exonerated Over 70 Years After Being Wrongly Accused of Raping Womanhttps://people.com/crime/groveland-four-exonerated-after-being-accused-of-rape-in-1949/CNN: 4 Black men exonerated more than 70 years after being wrongly accused of raping a White teen girlhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/11/22/us/groveland-four-exonerated-florida/index.html"Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America."https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Grove-Thurgood-Marshall-Groveland/dp/0061792268Please give Mind Over Murder a positive rating here: https://lovethepodcast.com/jpHq3qMind Over Murder is proud to be a Spreaker Prime Podcaster:https://www.spreaker.comNew Article in Virginia Gazette: 35 Years Later, Victims’ Families in Colonial Parkway Murders Still Searching for Answers, Hope DNA Advances will Solve Case By Em Holter and Abigail Adcoxhttps://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-colonial-parkway-murders-anniversary-1024-20211022-76jkpte6qvez7onybmhbhp7nfi-story.htmlNew Article in Medium: The Colonial Parkway Murders — A Tale of Two Killers? By Quinn Zanehttps://medium.com/unburied/the-colonial-parkway-murders-a-tale-of-two-killers-1e8fda367a48Washington Post: "Crimes of Passion"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/08/15/crimes-of-passion/0a38e8f9-6d04-48e4-a847-7d3cba53c363/New feature article in the Daily Beast: "Inside the Maddening Search for Virginia’s Colonial Parkway Serial Killer" By Justin Rohrlichhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-cathleen-thomas-and-rebecca-dowski-inside-the-hunt-for-the-colonial-parkway-killerCitizens! Check out our new line of "Mind Over Murder" t-shirts and other good stuff !