Free Ronnie Long with Candice

The Sleuth

Candice reached out to Blackman during the COVID-19. She decided she wanted to be a Private Investigator a year before. The process can take a long time, so she got all her paperwork together and sent it all off, and then the day after it was sent off, the pandemic started.

The firm she applied to decided to close their practice, and he forwarded her information to Blackman and has recently joined the team!

A week after Candice began at Blackman, we received a request to do some work on a cold case. They are working on the cold case for a UNC student who was killed in 2012 whose murder had gone unsolved. We are excited to share more about the investigation in the future.

We talk about Candice's murder board. We learn about her previous employment and love of true crime podcasts. We discuss the "Undisclosed" podcast. It has three hosts who are all lawyers. The first season is them going through the "Serial" Podcast with personal insights from the case. The following seasons have been helping with wrongful convictions.

Today the Sleuth's discuss the case of Ronnie Long. There are four episodes, between the seasons of two and three in the "Undisclosed" podcast. Ronnie long was living the average 20-year-old life in Concord, NC. Concord is a company town. A woman in the town was raped and through a strange happenstance, they come to find Ronnie Long as a suspect. There was a lot of shadiness that came through the investigation in 1973. Ronnie was a black man in a mostly black town.

You're not going to believe some of the details and the process that Ronnie Long went through in this case despite him not matching the original description at all. The jury selection seemed highly skewed against Ronnie Long as they didn't allow black people in the jury pool.

If you're interested in other wrongful convictions cases check out the podcast "Wrongful Conviction."
If you're looking for comedy true crime podcasts check out "Let's go to court"