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ANNOUNCER: Free the innocent. Find the guilty.

-Are you sure you want to poke the bear?-I want to rip his heart out.

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Previously on Proven Innocent...

JOE: How you doing on Madeline Scott?

-Come on, I mean, it's not that bad. -Oh, it's bad.

I can't print this.

-Okay, I will get you something.-You better.

Or someone else will.

12 years ago, your opponent, Esteban-Miller,

represented Falcone on a seriesof corruption charges and won.

I thought this was your candidate of choice.

Please believe that my being here means

I was out of options.

Toby Kissell?

Keep your drug-addicted brother away from me.

Don't you come in herelike you're the innocent victim.

You're a coward, and you're pathetic.

And everything that happened to him

is your fault.

MADELINE: Fill out the form in any language you like.

Just tell us your story.

-We'll try to help you if we can. -All right.

-VIOLET: We also have care packages -Thank you. Thank you.

with snacks and makeup and hair care products.

There's also a prepaid commissary card

with a $20 credit.

-Miss Scott. Do you know me? -[grunts]

-WOMAN: Hey. -Uh... yeah.

You're... Adele Meyerson?

I didn't kill my mother, Miss Scott.

You got to believe me.

I-I was wrongfully convicted by the press,

-just like you were. -Okay. All right.

Here's what I want you to do, Adele.

Fill out this form, get it backto me, and we'll review it.

I-I can't stay here, okay?

This place is a living nightmare.

-I can't... -Fill out the form.

I'll review it personally.

And I won't be swayed by any of the past press.

-Okay, thank you. I... -Move out the way, bitch.

They got $20 with my name on it.

Oh, it's okay. You can just step around.

Why I got to step around when she in my way?

Hey!

-Maddie. -[alarm buzzing]

[grunting, shouting]

Hey, get off her.

Don't even think about it.

-You okay? -Thank you.

Want to put some ice on that, slugger?

-Thank you. -Yep.

BODIE: Do you want me to wrap your hand in a...

a bag of frozen peas or something?

Like Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born?

What does he have that I don't have, huh?

Are you asking that seriously?

I didn't see it. How was it?

I loved it. Why'd you skip it?

I don't watch movies with self-pitying white folks.

So you haven't seena Julia Roberts movie since...?

-[whispering]: Never. -Okay, I'm gonna jump in now.

Uh, no, I don't needa bag of frozen peas, thank you.

Yes, I love Julia Roberts.

And lastly, does anyone have anything useful on Adele?

Otherwise known as "CinderHella,"

convicted of stabbing her stepmother 37 times.

VIOLET: Adoptedmother. She was born in Korea

and adopted by Taylor Meyerson,

who's this billionaire textile magnate

who brought her here when she was six years old.

EASY: Uh, the media says Adele's adopted mother

-never loved her. -VIOLET: Well, she didn't speak English

very well when she got here, so her mother

ostracized her, called her stupid.

EASY: She bonded with Daddy.

He loved her, spoiled her, and she loved him.

I think her mother resented her because

just after Daddy died...

MADELINE: Adele got treated like Cinderella.

BODIE:Except for, in this fairy tale,

CinderHella gets revenge. With a knife.

37 times.

Adele swears she didn't do it.

Oh, then she's definitely innocent.

VIOLET: Yeah, because if she isn't,

then she would be the first convicted murderer

to lie in the history of American crime.

Okay, your collective trepidation is noted.

But I remember the caseagainst her wasn't that strong.

Did you hear the zombie-like 911 call?

That's what convicted her with the public.

People didn't think my 911 callwas that great, either.

MADELINE [on tape]: Please, help.

She's not breathing. There's so much blood.

She's dead. Rosemary's dead.

[tape fast-forwarding]

You can't win.

You're either too emotional or not emotional enough.

The only person who thought I was telling the truth was...

Was me. And just like you, she contacted

every innocence project she could.

And... no one wanted to take her case,

just like no one wanted to take mine.

I love it when you two go down memory lane.

It's sweet, right?

Should we go talk to Adele?

Please.

On this week's episode of Until Proven Innocent,

we will look at the case of Adele Meyerson.

It is a salacious tale of greed and hate

between an adopted daughter andthe mother who never loved her.

In the famous novel The Stranger,

the protagonist is convicted of murder

mostly because he doesn't cry at his mother's funeral.

Sometimes, what we show the world is more important

than what is actually true.

[buzzer blares, lock clicks]

911 OPERATOR [on recording]: 911. What is your emergency?

ADELE: My mother's on the kitchen floor.

There's blood.

She's not moving.

911 OPERATOR: Is she breathing?

ADELE: She's dead.

I don't know why I sounded like that.

I-I can't even remember calling 911.

You were probably in shock.

Do you remember finding your mother's body?

Kind of.

I saw my mother, and there was so much blood, I...

something in my brain just kind of shut off.

After I found her, I couldn't sleep.

I couldn't eat. I couldn't do anything.

My aunt got so freaked out,

she had me locked up in a mental ward.

The case file says you went in voluntarily.

They make you say that so they can keep you there

over 48 hours.

I missed my mother's funeral.

I missed my best friend's funeral.

They used it against meat trial, said I was heartless.

[scoffs] They did the same thing to me.

It's a really common tactic.

Especially when their case isn't that strong.

They convict you with character assassination.

The police did have physical evidence.

They found bruising on your body

consistent with a struggle.

I know. And I can't explain that.

I don't know how I got those bruises.

You really can't remember?

No. All these years later,the whole thing is just a blur.

The bruises were just there.

What about the witness statements?

Half your family members testified against you.

A lot of people lied,for a lot of different reasons.

They wanted her inheritance, so they pinned it

on the adopted Korean girl who hated her mother.

Why'd you hate her?

Because she hated me.

The CinderHella thing is partially true.