STOLEN LIFE

By: Criminal Minded Media Jana Bommersbach
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  • "For 25 years, I thought Debra Milke was a child murdering bitch and I was joined by 100% of Arizona." ~ Jana Bommersbach. A day after seeing Santa Claus at a mall on December 1st, 1989, young Christopher Milke asked his mom if he could go back. Debra Milke’s roommate James took the boy – but instead of a trip back to the mall, he and a friend took young Christopher out to the desert & shot him 3 times in the back of the head. After being taken in for questioning, Milke allegedly confessed her role in the murder to Phoenix PD Detective Armando Saldate. She was convicted based on Detective Saldate’s word alone. CASE CLOSED... Everyone thought Debra Milke ended up exactly where she belonged – the only woman in Arizona on death row. She stayed there for 24 years – half her life – until 2013, when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals shocked everyone by throwing out her conviction & death sentence. There were only 2 conclusions to be drawn from this unbelievable turn of events – either those federal judges were ignorant, knuckle-headed idiots…or Debra Milke had been wrongly convicted. For an investigative journalist, this situation was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Jana Bommersbach is a legendary Phoenix journalist and author – she’s even been honored with 2 lifetime achievement awards as an “inspiration to the state’s media community.” Her investigation into the Milke case led to the book A Stolen Life: The Debra Milke Story. As the narrator of our show, she takes viewers inside one of the country’s most fascinating & infuriating criminal cases – inside the evidence, inside the breakdown of justice, inside the prison walls & finally, inside the mind of Debra Milke.
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    Jan 18 2023
    In August 1989, Debra Milke and her son Christopher Milke moved into an apartment with Jim Styers, a man she knew through her sister. On December 2, 1989, Styers took 4yr old Christopher to the Metrocenter mall in Phoenix. That afternoon he called Milke, and told her that the boy had disappeared from the mall. Styers alerted mall security, while Milke dialed 911. A missing person investigation was launched. The next day Phoenix police arrested Roger Scott, a long-time friend of Styers. After more than 14 hours of interrogation, Scott admitted that he knew where Christopher was and that the boy was dead. He directed the police to a desert area north of Phoenix, where Christopher’s body was discovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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