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Introducing - The Devil's Quarry II: Preview · Wrongful Conviction

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  Speaker 1: This series includes sensitive and potentially distressing topics, including sexual
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  Speaker 1: assault and abuse involving children. Listener discretion is advised. It's
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  Speaker 1: two weeks after Halloween 1997. Snows blowing sideways and swirls
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  Speaker 1: and stabs, stinging the eyes of the cops and firemen
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  Speaker 1: gathered around Nichols Pond. That's a dark squib of water
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  Speaker 1: in Putnam County, New York, curtained by a stand of woods.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone wanted to commit a murder, up here would
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  Speaker 2: be the greatest place in the world to hide the body.
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  Speaker 2: But no one will find it.
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  Speaker 1: The onlookers stamp their feet for warmth as five men
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  Speaker 1: in dive suits take turns wading in. The pond hasn't
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  Speaker 1: frozen yet, but has the sharpness of slush as divers
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  Speaker 1: slide beneath the surface. Several arm lengths from the cop
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  Speaker 1: stand a mother and father, eyeing the ripples intently. It
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  Speaker 1: was a supernatural vision that launched this search.
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  Speaker 2: I remember seeing a skull in the pond. The skull
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  Speaker 2: was smiling and the skeleton's hands were outstretched, palms facing outward.
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  Speaker 2: It scared me.
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  Speaker 1: That's Penny Osborne. She was sure the skull belonged to
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  Speaker 1: a girl. A girl named Robin Murphy. Robin had gone
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  Speaker 1: missing more than two years prior. Now, long after her
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  Speaker 1: trail's gone cold. The cops and Robin's parents are hanging
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  Speaker 1: their hopes on the divers at the bottom of that pond. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that and Penny's paranormal prowess. I'm very agnostic when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to things like spaceships and God. I look more
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  Speaker 1: for evidence. That's Anthony DePippo, our protagonist from season one.
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  Speaker 1: As a man who taught himself the law in prison,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony's all about facts. But six years ago, when someone
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  Speaker 1: slipped him Robin's case file, he caught a chill on
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  Speaker 1: the back of his neck. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like when I get spooked, it's authentic. He was sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the study of his penthouse apartment, which he'd purchased
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  Speaker 1: with a chunk of the $ 12 million payout. for his
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  Speaker 1: wrongful conviction in the murder of 12-year-old Josette Wright. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony's a big man, 6'5, and 300 pounds easy. But
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  Speaker 1: while reading through that scene, he heard a loud bang
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  Speaker 1: behind him and catapulted out of his chair. And the
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  Speaker 1: picture had fell over, and it got a dent in it,
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  Speaker 1: and I got spooked. In his parlor, he saw a
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  Speaker 1: scene from a paranormal flick. His favorite painting had dropped
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  Speaker 1: off the wall and been gashed by a selfie stick.
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  Speaker 1: It was a portrait of Anthony and his hero, Hulk Hogan.
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  Speaker 1: That stick had opened a gouge over the Hulkster's eye.
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  Speaker 1: If ghosts are phantoms with unfinished business, Robin Murphy had
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  Speaker 1: just dropped her card off. I'm bugging out. This is
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  Speaker 1: really kind of scary. And I didn't look at it
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  Speaker 1: anymore that night. I first met Anthony six years ago,
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  Speaker 1: around the time he got hold of Robin's file. My
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  Speaker 1: deep dive feature in Rolling Stone helped to quit his
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  Speaker 1: best friend Andy Krivak, who'd also been falsely convicted of
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  Speaker 1: Josette's murder. Anthony's false conviction for her murder was the
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  Speaker 1: pinch point of his life. But then a second girl
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  Speaker 1: vanished in the span of six months in the sleepy
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  Speaker 1: little town of Carmel, New York. No, Anthony knew that
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  Speaker 1: the job wasn't done. Josette's killer was still out there.
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  Speaker 1: And the man who disappeared Robin as well. In Anthony's mind,
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  Speaker 1: the same man was responsible for both girls. The devil
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  Speaker 1: of Putnam County. And so last year, he asked me
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  Speaker 1: to return with my shovel. He handed me a copy
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  Speaker 1: of Robin's case file. I shared it with my team.
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  Speaker 1: We divvied up its 3,000 pages and promptly went to work.
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  Speaker 1: In the episodes that follow, we'll train her floodlights on
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  Speaker 1: a phantom.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think she realized how dangerous this situation was.
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  Speaker 1: On every move by those Carmel cops.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't really take the whole thing seriously, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: They actually thought they were going to get a confession
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  Speaker 1: out of him. On every lead they followed.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what made us all think he had
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  Speaker 2: something to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to see a real ghost?
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because the devil's in those details. And we'll find him there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you hear my madness? Laughter hides my fears.
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  Speaker 1: Sorrow's depths are endless in this valley of tears. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Paul Solitarov, and this is Season 2 of The Devil's Quarry.