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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#545 Jason Flom with Fredrico Lowe-Bey
On May 21, 1988, about 5:00 a.m., the victim, after an argument with her boyfriend, left his parked car and walked alone toward her home in St. Louis, MO…
Wrongful Conviction#544 Jason Flom with Maggie Freleng on Quincy Cross and Graves County
Jason Flom sits down for an interview with Maggie Freleng, the Pulitzer prize-winning producer, journalist and host of Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County. In…
Wrongful Conviction#543 Jason Flom with Jonathan Parker
On April 9, 1997, shortly after midnight in Buffalo, NY, Officers Charles “Skip” McDougald and Michael Martinez were patrolling near Northampton…
Wrongful Conviction#542 Jason Flom with Nicholas Allen
On the night of February 4, 2011, Avalisa Morris was shot and killed at a birthday party in the basement of a two-family home in Queens, NY. The fatal gunshots…
Wrongful Conviction#541 Guest Host Maggie Freleng with Quincy Cross
18-year-old Jessica Currin’s burned and decomposing body was discovered on August 1, 2000 behind Mayfield Middle School in Mayfield, KY. Jessica had…
Wrongful Conviction#540 Jason Flom with Joe Berlinger on the West Memphis 3
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, the US found itself wrapped up in the “Satanic Panic” - a general state of fear revolving around…
Wrongful Conviction#539 Jason Flom with Cal Harris
Calvin "Cal" Harris was charged with the murder of his estranged wife Michele Harris, who disappeared in September 2001 from their home in Spencer, NY. Despite…
Wrongful Conviction#538 Jason Flom with Kendrick Gillum
On February 1, 1997, Charles Newsome, a member of the 18th Street Group was murdered while driving through the Mayfair Apartments in West Memphis, AR. The city…
Wrongful Conviction#537 Jason Flom with Johnny Berry
On August 10th, 1994, a man and a woman were in a van in West Philadelphia, when two males approached. One blocked the passenger door, while the other shot the…
Wrongful Conviction#536 Jason Flom with the Virginia 3
On July 12, 1994, 19-year old Steven Smith was killed after being struck by a single bullet to the head in Newport News, VA. Within weeks three individuals…
Wrongful Conviction#535 Ben Bowlin with Reynaldo Munoz
On September 8, 1985, dozens gathered on Keeler Avenue in Chicago, IL for a friend's birthday party. In the early morning hours, while walking back to the…
Wrongful Conviction#534 Ben Bowlin with Robert Johnson
In the evening of April 14, 1996, Edward Binion was shot in the head during a home invasion in Chicago, IL. After a series of arrests, since-disgraced Cook…
Wrongful Conviction#533 Maggie Freleng with Selma Butler
This week, we are bringing to you a special episode of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng featuring Selma Butler. Maggie has returned to share this…
Wrongful Conviction#532 Jason Flom with Clay Chabot
In recognition of July 4th we want to highlight Clay Chabot, a Navy veteran who served almost 2 years on the USS Saratoga CVA-60 before he was honorably…
Wrongful Conviction#531 Ben Bowlin with Trevor Mattis
On September 15, 1988, there was an argument inside of Philadelphia, PA row house. As one party tried to leave, Everton Meade Johnson followed while making…
Wrongful Conviction#530 Ben Bowlin with Duane Williams
On the morning of August 20, 2012, police and firefighters were called to a house fire in Detroit, MI. Bobby Cross and Darryl Simms died in the fire…
Wrongful Conviction#529 The Wrongful Conviction of Leonard Peltier - Part 3
In part three of this three-part series, at Leonard’s trial in 1977 federal prosecutors changed the failed narrative from the Butler / Robideau trial…
Wrongful Conviction#528 The Wrongful Conviction of Leonard Peltier - Part 2
Ben Bowlin, new co-host of Wrongful Conviction and host of the long-standing podcast Stuff the Don’t Want You to Know and Jason Flom from the Wrongful…
Wrongful Conviction#527 The Wrongful Conviction of Leonard Peltier - Part 1
Ben Bowlin, new co-host of Wrongful Conviction and host of the long-standing podcast Stuff the Don’t Want You to Know and Jason Flom from the Wrongful…
Wrongful Conviction#526 Ben Bowlin with Sonny Bharadia
On November 18, 2001, a woman returned home from church to a man burglarizing her apartment in Thunderbolt, GA. While wearing a pair of batting gloves, the man…
Wrongful Conviction#525 Jason Flom with Willie "Pete" Williams
On April 5, 1985, around 11 p.m., a woman exiting her car in her apartment complex parking lot just north of Atlanta, GA was approached by an African-American…
Wrongful Conviction#524 Jason Flom with Clemente Aguirre
Coming of age in Honduras, Clemente “Shorty” Aguirre was faced with a choice: join MS13 or die. He moved to Nicaragua with his grandmother instead…
Wrongful Conviction#523 Jason Flom with Lerico Kearney
On November 21, 1997, Gene Artis and his sister Yvonne Giles were shot and killed at their apartment in Suffolk, VA. Six-year-old Travone Artis was the only…
Wrongful Conviction#522 SPECIAL EMERGENCY EPISODE: Jason Flom and Maggie Freleng with Andre Brown live from the UJC Summit
In this updated special edition of Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom & Maggie Freleng, we revisit the case of Andre Brown, whose conviction was vacated in…
Wrongful Conviction#521 Jason Flom with John "Divine G" Whitfield
On March 25, 1988, Harold Wesley shot and killed Jimmy Calibera in a drug deal gone wrong. The crime occurred in front of the Breukelen Houses estates in…
Wrongful Conviction#520 Jason Flom with Ivery Dorsey
On July 10, 1994, in Houston, TX, four to six armed men forcibly entered a house that was being used as a base for selling crack cocaine. The intruders kicked…
Wrongful Conviction#519 Jason Flom with Marcus Blalock
On March 24, 2001, the burned body of Howard Rose was found in a pick up truck in Pennsylvania. Rose had been shot in the back of the head in Cleveland, OH the…
Wrongful Conviction#518 Jason Flom with Jermaine Archer
On July 21, 1997 in Brooklyn, NY, Patrick Niles, a passenger in a vehicle, was shot in the head and killed. The driver of the car and surviving eyewitness…
Wrongful Conviction#517 Jason Flom and John Grisham with Jamie Snow
On Easter Sunday, 1991, 18-year old gas station attendant William Little was shot and killed during an apparent armed robbery in Bloomington, IL. Eight years…
Wrongful Conviction#516 Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian with Corey Miller
On the night of January 12, 2002, Corey MIller went to the Platinum Club in Jefferson Parish, LA. Corey, professionally known as “C-Murder,” lived…
Wrongful Conviction#515 Jason Flom with Allan Woodhouse and Brian Anderson
On July 17, 1973, 40 year old father of two and local chef Ting Fong Chan was beaten and stabbed to death on his way home from his night shift in Manitoba…
Wrongful Conviction#514 Jason Flom with Richard Glossip
On January 7th, 1997, the owner of the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City, OK was beaten to death with a baseball bat at his motel by admitted killer, thief, and…
Wrongful Conviction#513 Jason Flom with James Watson
On November 16, 1979, Boston, MA cab driver Jeffrey Boyajian was killed after suffering five gunshots to the head. Another cab driver came forward claiming to…
Wrongful Conviction#512 Jason Flom with Charles "Brandon" Martin
On October 27, 2008, Jodi Lynne Torok was at her Crofton, MD home talking on the phone with her close friend, Blair Wolfe, when a man, purporting to be a…
Wrongful Conviction#511 Jason Flom with Louis Costilla, Jr.
On the morning of August 4, 1992, a man and his wife discovered the body of 31-year-old Vernon Huggins while walking their dog in Toledo, OH. He had been…
Wrongful Conviction#510 Jason Flom with Pedro Reynoso
On July 23rd, 1991, Carlos Torres and Charles Rivera were shot and killed while in a car in North Philadelphia, PA. One witness who later recanted identified…
Wrongful Conviction#509 Jason Flom with Manfred Younger
On Saturday, June 16, 2007, Adrien Jackson and Tierra Pressley where shot multiple times outside of the Off Broadway Lounge in Camden, NJ at around 2:30am…
Wrongful Conviction#508 Maggie Freleng with Eron Shelman
One day in May of 1992, 19-year-old Eron Shelman was driving around Detroit, MI with three of his buddies. Eron was at the wheel with his friend Antonio Knight…
Wrongful Conviction#507 Jason Flom with Eric Glisson
On January 18, 1995, 38-year-old Denise Raymond, a Federal Express executive, was found dead in her Bronx, NY apartment from two gunshot wounds to the head…
Wrongful Conviction#506 Jason Flom with Keith Harward
In the early morning hours of September 14, 1982, a man broke into a home in Newport News, Virginia and beat 30-year-old Jesse Perron to death with a crowbar…
Wrongful Conviction#505 Jason Flom with Fernando Bermudez
On August 4, 1991, at a nightclub in New York NY, some teenagers began taunting each other and words escalated to punches. When the teenagers came out of the…
Wrongful Conviction#504 Maggie Freleng with Brandon Spencer
On Halloween night in 2012, shots rang out at a party on the campus of the University of Southern California. Four people were injured and no one died…
Wrongful Conviction#503 Jason Flom and Barry Scheck with Barry Gibbs
Since releasing the 500th episode of Wrongful Conviction earlier this month, we thought it appropriate to spotlight some episodes from the very first season of…
Wrongful Conviction#502 Maggie Freleng with Darrell Ewing
On December 31st, 2009, in Detroit, MI, J.B. Watson was shot in a van while stopped at a red light. Witnesses identified Darrell Ewing as the shooter. Despite…
Wrongful Conviction#501 Jason Flom with Delia D'Ambra on Jeff Pelley
This is a special episode of Wrongful Conviction, featuring guests Delia D'Ambra, host of Audiochuck's CounterClock, and Frances Watson, President of the…
Wrongful Conviction#500 Maggie Freleng with Stacy Larson
On May 12, 1990, Ron Hilgenberg and his wife were driving in South Dakota on Interstate 90 when a passing vehicle opened fire, killing the 76-year-old man…
Wrongful Conviction#499 Guest Host Earlonne Woods with Joaquin Ciria
On Wednesday November, 27, 2024, the night before Thanksgiving, Governor Gavin Newsom of CA granted a a “full and unconditional” pardon to Earlonne…
Wrongful Conviction#498 Maggie Freleng with Rosa Jimenez
In August 2005, 22-year-old Rosa Jimenez was sentenced to 99 years in prison for murder and injury to a child after a 21-month-old child she was babysitting…
Wrongful Conviction#497 Jason Flom with Jerry Mark
In a 1976 case known as the “Cain and Abel Murders”, Jerry Allen Mark, a former Peace Corps volunteer and “hippie lawyer,” was…
Wrongful Conviction#496 Maggie Freleng with William Beeman
On the morning of April 26, 1980, visitors at Wildcat Den State Park in Iowa found the body of 22-year-old Michiel Winkel. She had been stabbed 17 times. From…
Wrongful Conviction#495 Jason Flom with Gary Benloss
UPDATE- Gary Benloss walked out of prison on November 20th, 2024, after 22.5 years. Jason was there to greet him. On April 10, 2002, Victor Vulcain was shot…
Wrongful Conviction#494 Maggie Freleng with Annette Cahill
On the evening of October 13, 1992, in the small town of West Liberty, Iowa, Corey Wieneke’s body was found in his bedroom by his fiancee. Annette…
Wrongful Conviction#493 Jason Flom with Ronnie Miller
Ronald Miller and Lori Johnson of Rockford, IL had a daughter, G.M., in 2010. In 2015, several days after an argument between Johnson and Miller in which…
Wrongful Conviction#492 Jason Flom with Keith Washington
On January 24th, 2007, Keith Washington, a police officer and former Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, was home with his wife and 6 year old daughter while…
Wrongful Conviction#491 Jason Flom with Tyree Wallace
On October 27, 1997, a man was robbed and killed in Philadelphia, PA. Due to mistaken eyewitness identification, 19-year-old Tyree Wallace was implicated in…
Wrongful Conviction#244 Jason Flom with Kevin Cooper
On Saturday, June 4, 1983, three members of the Ryen family, as well as their neighbor’s son, Christopher Hughes, were brutally murdered in the Ryen…
Wrongful Conviction#490 Maggie Freleng with Tom Rhodes
On the night of August 2, 1996, Tom Rhodes and his wife Jane were on a boat ride on Green Lake, in Minnesota, when Jane fell overboard. Tom failed to find…
Wrongful Conviction#489 Guest Host Conor Hall with Brian Pippitt
Evelyn Malin was the 84-year-old owner of the Dollar Lake Store in tiny Shamrock Township, 130 miles north of Minneapolis. On the morning of February 24, 1998…
Wrongful Conviction#488 Maggie Freleng with Belynda Goff
On the morning of June 12, 1994, Belynda Goff woke up to find her husband Stephen bludgeoned to death in their Green Forest, AR, apartment. From the jump…
Wrongful Conviction#487 Guest Host Conor Hall with Angel Bumpass
On January 16, 2009, Linda Bonner found her husband Franklin duct-taped to a chair in their Chattanooga, TN home, with tape over his nose and mouth and signs…