The Photo That Sent an Innocent Woman to Prison
The Photo That Sent an Innocent Woman to PrisonA single photograph taken at 6:44 AM on July 9, 2019 showed a red 2.5-gallon fuel canister undamaged on a loading dock while the warehouse behind it burned - a picture that helped send Kelly Wagner to prison for nearly three years. What exactly did that image prove, and how did a two-sentence incident log and a nineteen-page gap in observations let a critical anomaly hide in plain sight?In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events captured in the files and photos, from the morning the fire was first seen to the courtroom where State's…
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