It Wasn't Me: Bad DNA? Framed By the CIA?
62-year-old Mark Huber is serving a lengthy sentence in Idaho for sex crimes he claims he didn't commit. "I am not freaking guilty," he loudly proclaims early on in this episode. According to Huber, the DNA used to convict him belonged to a Hispanic female. Then, we head slightly northwest to Aberdeen, Washington, where PenPals.Buzz member Rich Parenteau, convicted of murdering his mother and stepfather with an axe, describes in detail how he was framed by the CIA. Both men provide a wealth of evidence to support their claims. But are either of them telling the truth? You be the judge.
We know very little about the validity of Mark Huber's claims, though he does seem adamant that he's not guilty. We know how the legal system can be, and we've seen studies showing that there could be over 100,000 wrongfully convicted men and women locked up in jails and prisons in the USA, so we try not to jump to any conclusions. He was "proven guilty" by a court of law, but we wanted to give him this platform to share his story, to get the information out that he wanted to share. He had been interviewed by shows like Dateline and 48 Hours, but claimed they always edited his story, and never allowed him to "speak his truth." We gave him that opportunity, unedited, right here on the podcast.
All we will say about Rich Parenteau is that he has a wealth of legal documents available to read along with audio calls where he details what he claims were errors and falsehoods told by the prosecution. This is more evidence than we could sort through in a lifetime, but we do applaud Rich for the years it must have taken him, working 24/7, to compile all of this information. It was mindblowing.