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Wrongful Conviction
Hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, and Emmy Award-winning writer, producer and podcast host Lauren Bright Pacheco, Wrongful Conviction features intimate conversations with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they maintain they did not commit. Some have been fully exonerated and reunited with family and friends while others…
Episodes
Wrongful Conviction#065 Jason Flom with Kerry Porter
On December 27, 1996, 35-year-old Tyrone Camp was fatally shot in the head and back as he was warming up his truck at Active Transportation Co. in Louisville…
Wrongful Conviction#064 Jason Flom with Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson was 25 years old when he was wrongfully convicted for the rape of a woman in 1983, and he served 16 years for that crime. In 1999, a judge…
Wrongful Conviction#063 Jason Flom and Ron Kuby with Shabaka Shakur
On January 11, 1988, Fitzgerald Clarke and Steven Hewitt were fatally shot in Brooklyn, NY outside of a building where they sold drugs. Shabaka Shakur, a…
Wrongful Conviction#062 Jason Flom with Guy Miles
On June 29, 1998, three men committed an armed robbery at a Fidelity Financial institution in Fullerton, CA. Two bank employees chose Guy Miles from faulty…
Wrongful Conviction#061 Jason Flom with De'Marchoe Carpenter and Malcolm Scott
De’Marchoe Carpenter and Malcolm Scott were 17 years old when Tulsa police arrested them in connection to a gang-related shooting that killed 19-year-old…
Wrongful Conviction#060 Jason Flom with Pete Ouko
In 1998, Peter Ouko was taken to Kamiti Maximum Prison in Kenya and was sentenced to death in 2001. His sentence would later be commuted to life imprisonment…
Wrongful Conviction#059 Jason Flom with Steven Barnes
In March 1988, Steven Barnes was arrested and charged with the rape, sodomy, and murder of 16-year-old Kimberly Simon in upstate New York. He was tried by a…
Wrongful Conviction#058 Jason Flom with Calvin Buari
Calvin Buari served 22 years for a double murder in the Bronx, even though someone else confessed to the crime. In the early 1990s, Calvin Buari was a…
Wrongful Conviction#057 Jason Flom with Andre Hatchett
Andre Hatchett spent half of his life in prison for a murder he did not commit largely due to inadequate defense, a single unreliable witness, and exculpatory…
Wrongful Conviction#056 Jason Flom with Angel Cordero
Angel Cordero was convicted in 1999 of attempted murder and robbery of then-Boston University freshman Jason Mercado, who was attacked and stabbed by strangers…
Wrongful Conviction#055 Jason Flom with John Moss
In December 1979, a triple murder shook the small town of St. Albans, WV. John Moss III was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison, and he has since…
Wrongful Conviction#054 Jason Flom with Rodney Roberts
Rodney Roberts was arrested in 1996 in Newark, NJ, after an altercation with a friend. After several days in custody, he found himself charged with the…
Wrongful Conviction#053 Jason Flom with Kirstin Blaise Lobato
Kirstin Blaise Lobato was twice convicted of the gruesome murder of a 44-year-old homeless man named Duran Bailey, whose body was found behind a dumpster off…
Wrongful Conviction#052 Jason Flom with John Huffington
John Huffington spent 32 years in the Maryland Prison System—10 of which were on death row—after being wrongfully convicted of a 1981 double…
Wrongful Conviction#051 Jason Flom with Malcolm Alexander
Malcolm Alexander was wrongfully convicted for a 1979 rape in Gretna, LA and spent nearly four decades incarcerated before DNA evidence proved his innocence…
Wrongful Conviction#050 Jason Flom with Ronald Cotton
In July 1984, an assailant broke into Jennifer Thompson-Cannino’s apartment and sexually assaulted her; later that night, the assailant broke into…
Wrongful Conviction#049 Jason Flom with Leroy Harris
From the moment he was charged with rape and robbery in 1989, Leroy Harris has insisted on his innocence. In May 1983, a New Haven, CT nightclub owner was…
Wrongful Conviction#048 Jason Flom with Jimmie Gardner
Jimmie C. Gardner was a Charleston minor league baseball player when he was accused of sexual assault in 1987. He grew up in Tampa, FL and was drafted by the…
Wrongful Conviction#047 Jason Flom with Jason Strong
In December 1999, the body of an unidentified young woman was found beaten to death in a forest preserve near North Chicago in Lake County, IL. Ten days after…
Wrongful Conviction#046 Jason Flom with David McCallum
David McCallum and Willie Stuckey were both 16 when they were convicted of forcing a 20-year-old man into his Buick Regal at gunpoint in Queens, killing him…
Wrongful Conviction#045 Jason Flom with Vanessa Gathers
In 1998, Vanessa Gathers was wrongfully convicted of robbing and beating 71-year-old Michael Shaw to death. There was no physical evidence linking Vanessa to…
Wrongful Conviction#044 Jason Flom with Ronald Simpson-Bey
Ronald Simpson-Bey was a jailhouse lawyer who got his conviction reversed for prosecutorial misconduct and subsequently won his freedom after serving 27 years…
Wrongful Conviction#043 Jason Flom with Michelle Murphy
On September 12th, 1994, 17-year-old Michelle Murphy found her 15-week-old son stabbed to death in her kitchen. After being questioned without a parent or…
Wrongful Conviction#042 Jason Flom with Noura Jackson
Noura Jackson was egregiously framed and wrongfully convicted of murdering her mother, Jennifer Jackson, in Memphis, TN in 2005. Amazingly she spent over three…
Wrongful Conviction#041 Jason Flom with Jeffrey Deskovic
In 1990, Jeffrey Deskovic was wrongfully convicted of the brutal rape and murder of his 15-year-old classmate, Angela Correa. Jeff was only 16 at the time of…
Wrongful Conviction#040 Jason Flom with Dusty Turner
On June 19th, 1995, Dusty Turner was out at a bar with some friends in Virginia Beach, VA, including his roommate and training partner, Billy Brown. Dusty…
Wrongful Conviction#039 Jason Flom with Kian Khatibi
In 1998, Kian Khatibi was 22 years old and living in Westchester County, NY when he was wrongfully convicted of stabbing two men during a bar fight and…
Wrongful Conviction#038 Jason Flom with Jon-Adrian Velazquez
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction highlights the updates from two episodes recorded from Behind Bars. Since airing the Season 4 premiere about…
Wrongful Conviction#037 Jason Flom with Ryan Ferguson
Ryan Ferguson was a 17-year-old high school student when Kent Heitholt, a sportswriter for the Columbia Daily Tribune, was found beaten and strangled in…
Wrongful Conviction#036 Jason Flom with Lorenzo Johnson
Lorenzo Johnson served 22 years of a life sentence after he was framed twice for a murder that happened in Pennsylvania while he was in New York. On December…
Wrongful Conviction#035 Jason Flom with Lucinda Hites-Clabaugh
Lucinda Hites-Clabaugh was 53 years old when she was wrongfully convicted of first-degree sexual abuse of a third grader in 2009. She was convicted despite no…
Wrongful Conviction#034 Jason Flom with Lamonte McIntyre
On the afternoon of April 15th, 1994, two men were sitting in a powder-blue Cadillac in the Quindaro neighborhood of Kansas City, KS. A man dressed in black…
Wrongful Conviction#033 Jason Flom with Andrew Krivak
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction Behind Bars was recorded inside of Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Buffalo, NY with…
Wrongful Conviction#032 Jason Flom with Crystal Weimer
Curtis Haith was beaten to death and shot outside of his home in western Pennsylvania. Police determined that the evening before Haith had attended a party in…
Wrongful Conviction#031 Jason Flom with Brian Ferguson
Brian Ferguson was a 20-year-old college student in West Virginia when he was accused in 2002 of fatally shooting a fellow classmate. Brian was convicted of…
Wrongful Conviction#030 Jason Flom with Angel Gonzalez
In 1994, Angel Gonzalez was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for the rape and kidnapping of a woman in Waukegan, IL. On the night of…
Wrongful Conviction#029 Jason Flom with Jerry Miller
In 1981, a woman was brutally beaten, raped, robbed, and forced into the trunk of her car on the roof of a parking garage in Chicago. Two employees recognized…
Wrongful Conviction#028 Jason Flom with Robert Jones
In the spring of 1992, Robert Jones was arrested for a series of attacks that occurred in the French Quarter of New Orleans, which included the murder of a…
Wrongful Conviction#027 Jason Flom with Jerome Morgan
In 1993, Jerome Morgan was only 17 when he was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Clarence Landry III, who had been shot to death at a sweet 16 party at…
Wrongful Conviction#026 Jason Flom with Daniel Tapia
Daniel Tapia was arrested on April 12th, 2003 for second-degree murder in the Calliope housing projects in New Orleans where he lived. He was accused of being…
Wrongful Conviction#025 Jason Flom with Anthony DiPippo
In November 1995, a hunter found the remains of 12-year-old Josette Wright in a wooded area of Putnam County, NY. She was reported to have been hog-tied with…
Wrongful Conviction#024 Jason Flom with Antoine Day
On September 1, 1990, Thomas Peters and James Coleman were shot while shooting craps outside a liquor store on the west side of Chicago, IL at about 1:30 am…
Wrongful Conviction#023 Jason Flom with Johnny Hincapie
Johnny Hincapie was convicted as part of a gang that murdered 22-year-old tourist Brian Watkins, even though he himself was not charged with the act and…
Wrongful Conviction#022 Jason Flom with Kristine Bunch and Obie Anthony (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017)
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded at the 2017 Innocence Network Conference in San Diego, CA, where 170 exonerees and 750 members of the…
Wrongful Conviction#021 Jason Flom with Floyd Bledsoe and Cornelius Dupree (Live from the Innocence Network Conference 2017)
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded at the 2017 Innocence Network Conference in San Diego, CA, where 170 exonerees and 750 members of the…
Wrongful Conviction#020 Jason Flom with The San Antonio Four
In 1995, 20-year-old Elizabeth Ramirez and three of her friends —Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez — were indicted on charges of…
Wrongful Conviction#019 Jason Flom with Franky Carrillo
On January 18, 1991, six teenage boys were standing on a curb talking in front of a house in the Los Angeles, CA suburb of Lynwood. Donald Sarpy, the father of…
Wrongful Conviction#018 Jason Flom with Tony Wright
Tony Wright endured two trials and 25 years in prison before a jury found him not guilty for the rape, sodomy and murder of Louise Talley, a 77-year-old woman…
Wrongful Conviction#017 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Jason Baldwin
At 16 years old, Jason Baldwin along with Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley – known as the West Memphis Three – was convicted in 1994 of killing…
Wrongful Conviction#016 Jason Flom with Kirk Bloodsworth
Kirk Bloodsworth, an honorably discharged former Marine, was the first person sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated by DNA testing. He was 22 years…
Wrongful Conviction#015 Jason Flom with Dennis Maher
On November 16, 1983, a 28-year-old woman was attacked and sexually assaulted by an unknown male as she was walking home from work in Lowell, MA. The following…
Wrongful Conviction#014 Jason Flom with Jon-Adrian Velazquez
Jon-Adrian “J.J.” Velazquez was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life for the 1998 shooting death of Albert Ward, a…
Wrongful Conviction#013 Jason Flom with Everton Wagstaffe
Everton Wagstaffe was wrongfully convicted of the rape, kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Negron in 1993. Everton’s conviction was based…
Wrongful Conviction#012 Jason Flom with Peter Pringle
Peter Pringle was wrongfully convicted of an armed robbery and the murder of two police officers during a bank raid in Ireland in 1980. He was the last person…
Wrongful Conviction#011 Jason Flom with Sedrick Courtney
Sedrick Courtney was wrongfully convicted of robbery with a firearm and first-degree burglary in Tulsa, OK. On April 6, 1995, two armed men wearing ski masks…
Wrongful Conviction#010 Jason Flom on Christmas Behind Bars: A Special Episode with Amanda Knox, Jarrett Adams, and Jeffrey Deskovic
In this special episode, Jason Flom talks to Amanda Knox, Jarrett Adams and Jeff Deskovic about what it's like for an innocent person who is forced to spend…
Wrongful Conviction#009 Jason Flom with Michael Morton
Michael Morton's nightmare began in 1986, when his wife Christine was bludgeoned to death in their bed in Austin, TX. Despite any evidence pointing to his…
Wrongful Conviction#008 Jason Flom with Douglas DiLosa
In September 1986, 34-year-old Douglas Dilosa was found bound with rope in his Jefferson Parish, LA home. His wife was found strangled upstairs. Dilosa, who is…
Wrongful Conviction#007 Jason Flom with Richard Rosario
Richard Rosario was convicted of a murder that took place in the Bronx on June 19, 1996, based on the testimony of two witnesses who had picked his picture out…
Wrongful Conviction#006 Jason Flom with Keith Harward
Keith Allen Harward, a Navy veteran, was wrongfully convicted of a 1982 rape and murder in Newport News, VA and served 33 years in prison. The assailant had…