‘The Big House And The Picket Fence’ • Discoverology

‘The Big House And The Picket Fence’

Crime, Long Reads

Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”

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