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Death Row Dates - Michaela’s Story: Being Engaged to a Death Row Inmate | Prison Documentary

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In Britain today, over 100 women are married or engaged to prisoners on America’s Death Row. This is Michaela’s story – she is 43 and a twice-divorced mother of 3 from Essex in England.

She has been ‘dating’ Jody Lee Miles for 18 months and recently became engaged to him. Jody has been on Death Row in Maryland for 12 years. He shot a musical theatre director in the head at point-blank range. He admits to the shooting but says it was in self-defense and Michaela believes him.

Michaela has always had a fascination with prisons. It was after looking up information on the internet that she realized the death penalty still existed in the US. She was ‘shocked’ and ‘disgusted’ and began writing to inmates as an offer of friendship. Despite not wanting any kind of romantic involvement she found herself falling in love with Jody and 18 months later they became engaged. Michaela’s daughters are 22 and 12 but Michaela couldn’t bring herself to tell them the truth about Jody until very recently. Her 12-year-old is close to Jody but her eldest daughter is struggling with the fact that her mum lied to her about Jody’s circumstances and she’s worried about how Michaela will cope if one day Jody is executed.

Michaela and Jody are able to speak to each other on the phone and Michaela uses this to ‘bring him into the real world’. She lets Jody listen to the bath running or hear her cooking. They even sit in silence together. But sometimes Michaela does feel like she’s a prisoner in her own home as she waits for the phone to ring……Despite speaking regularly and being engaged they have never actually met!

Michaela is making the trip to Maryland to meet Jody for the very first time. She’ll meet his lawyers and find out ‘exactly what they doing to help Jody’ and she will pay her respects to Jody’s newborn babies who were both killed in a road traffic accident 23 years ago.
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