CRIME

Kristine Bunch - 17 Years in Prison

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1
Episode
3
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Kristine Bunch was a 21-year old single mother, living in a trailer park with her three-year-old son, Tony. One summer night in June 1995, as the pair slept, a fire started in the trailer and tragically killed Tony. Within hours of the firefighters arriving, the scene was classified an arson and Kristine was charged with the murder of her son. Scared and unable to grieve for her child, Kristine was awaiting trial when she discovered she was pregnant. She gave birth to her second son, Trent behind bars and began her fight to prove her innocence and return home to her baby. Seventeen years later, Kristine and her ‘A-team’ of lawyers disproved the fire science that convicted her, and she was finally exonerated in 2012. As a free woman, Kristine founded JustIs4JustUs to support exonerees and has reconnected with her now-adult son.

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