Beyond All Repair Ch. 7: Made Up

Beyond All Repair

WBUR

Criminal Justice, True Crime

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Amory meets Sophia in person for the first time with a sense of uneasiness.

While in jail awaiting her second trial in 2005, Sophia made a friend who convinced her to testify in her own defense. Today, this friend, Morgen, is Sophia’s life partner.

After getting ahold of the footage of Sophia’s second trial, Morgen and Amory discover that Sophia told a different story about the day of the murder on the stand — one that puts her at the scene.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the Atlantic Festival.
0:03.3	On September 19th and 20th in Washington, D.C.
0:06.8	Meet great minds who don't think alike during two full days of one-on-one
0:10.9	interviews, panel discussions, book talks, screenings and more.
0:15.0	Tickets are available at the Atlantic Festival.com.
0:19.0	Heads up. This episode contains strong language. Last time on Beyond All Repair.
0:26.0	We the jury find the defendant Sophia's Johnson guilty.
0:29.0	Being pregnant with him while incarcerated truly saved my life.
0:34.0	No sentence would be strong enough for Sophia.
0:37.0	I picked up the phone and Terese was excited and I said I won it nice.
0:43.4	She said you won.
0:44.8	A person in her wife couldn't have done that.
0:47.7	It doesn't mean she wasn't involved.
0:49.2	I mean. So using this opportunity to just kiss us, but I'm a little nervous.
1:11.0	It's autumn 2021. I'm nervously, frantically recording a voice memo while I set up my actual
1:18.8	audio equipment in the driveway of the person I'm about to talk to.
1:23.1	They're very different narratives about her.
1:27.4	Very different narratives about the woman I'd been talking to
1:30.8	for six months at this point, always on video calls. I knew her
1:35.9	side of the story well, but I'd read and heard many other perspectives. People who
1:41.5	call her a manipulator, a mastermind, a murderer.
1:46.0	I hope that I'm not doing something stupid right now. This was the day I'd meet Sophia Johnson in person for the first time.
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