🇺🇸 In 2014, Chicago woman Dawn Michelle Hunt thought she had won the trip of a lifetime. She received an email saying she had won an all-expenses-paid trip to Australia. At first she was suspicious, but after checking out the company she believed the offer was legitimate. The trip included a stopover in China to collect prize documents and designer handbags she was told to take with her to Australia. Then, at the airport in Guangzhou, security searched the handbags and found more than 4.5 pounds of methamphetamine sewn into the linings. Hunt was arrested. Chinese authorities later acknowledged she had likely been used as an unwitting drug mule, but the court still convicted her saying she “should have known better” She was originally sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, which was later reduced to life in prison. More than a decade on, she remains locked up in Guangdong Women’s Prison and her family continues to fight for her release.