Detroit — Darrell Siggers, who spent 34 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, is among the exonerated Detroiters who appear in “Sins of Detroit,” a new true crime podcast from The Detroit News.

“The hardest time any man can do is for a crime he didn’t commit,” Siggers says in “Motor City Injustice,” the podcast’s five-episode first season.

“(My) whole case, for the most part, was based on lies,” said Siggers, 55, who was convicted in 1984 and exonerated in 2018. “(Detroit police) just wanted to close this case, and I just happened to be illiterate, black, uneducated, poor, and so, I’m the perfect guy to do this to — and that’s what they did.”

Siggers is among the record number of innocent Detroiters who have been released from prison in…