<p>In 1982, postmistress Betty Jane Mottinger was abducted from her one-room post office in Elgin, Ohio — a town of fifty people and murdered. </p><br><p>Six weeks later, John Spirko, a career criminal with a talent for spinning stories, decided to trade invented information about her death for a deal that would keep his girlfriend out of prison. It didn't work. Instead, his web of lies contradictory, provably wrong, and completely fabricated, somehow became the centrepiece of a capital murder prosecution. No physical evidence. No connection to the victim. No connection to the crime scene. Just the words of a man who admitted he made it all up. </p><br><p>John Spirko has been on Ohio's death row, and now serves life without parole, for over forty years. A federal judge called his conviction a foundation of sand. A governor said there was enough doubt to spare his life but not enough to free him. </p><br><p>This is his story as told by him from his prison cell in Ohio.</p><p>EARLY AND AD FREE ACCESS: for as little as $1.69 a week!</p><br><p>Apple + <a href="http://apple.co/oneminuteremaining" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><br><p>Patreon and find us on Facebook <a href="https://open.acast.com/networks/62bcfb41e312cf00138852c3/shows/631e6bf63690500012c3edd1/linktr.ee/one_minute_remaining" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>