He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P5

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P5

In 1982, postmistress Betty Jane Mottinger was abducted from her one-room post office in Elgin, Ohio — a town of fifty people and murdered.


Six weeks later, John Spirko, a career criminal with a talent for spinning stories, decided to trade invented information about her death for a deal that would keep his girlfriend out of prison. It didn't work. Instead, his web of lies contradictory, provably wrong, and completely fabricated, somehow became the centrepiece of a capital murder prosecution. No physical evidence. No connection to the victim. No connection to the crime scene. Just the words of a man who admitted he made it all up.


John Spirko has been on Ohio's death row, and now serves life without parole, for over forty years. A federal judge called his conviction a foundation of sand. A governor said there was enough doubt to spare his life but not enough to free him.


This is his story as told by him from his prison cell in Ohio.

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What the attorney thinks - John Spirko

What the attorney thinks - John Spirko

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He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P4

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P4

In 1982, postmistress Betty Jane Mottinger was abducted from her one-room post office in Elgin, Ohio — a town of fifty people and murdered.Six weeks later, John Spirko, a career criminal with a talent...

2 Mar 31min

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P3

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P3

In 1982, postmistress Betty Jane Mottinger was abducted from her one-room post office in Elgin, Ohio — a town of fifty people and murdered.Six weeks later, John Spirko, a career criminal with a talent...

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He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P2

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P2

In 1982, postmistress Betty Jane Mottinger was abducted from her one-room post office in Elgin, Ohio — a town of fifty people and murdered. Six weeks later, John Spirko, a career criminal with a talen...

23 Feb 32min

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P1

He lied his way onto Death Row - John Spirko P1

In 1982, postmistress Betty Jane Mottinger was abducted from her one-room post office in Elgin, Ohio — a town of fifty people and murdered. Six weeks later, John Spirko, a career criminal with a talen...

18 Feb 32min

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What I Survived explores the extraordinary true stories of people who survived the unthinkable. Each story takes you back to who these people were before everything changed, then inside the moment the...

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Today I catch up with Tariq Maqbool, a man serving 150 years in prison for a double homicide he has always maintained he did not commit, a sentence that would see him die behind bars.That was until no...

16 Feb 22min

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