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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#306 Guest Host Beth Shelburne with Jeffrey Holemon
In March of 1987, a female University of Alabama student was returning to her apartment in Tuscaloosa, AL, when she was attacked by a masked man who raped her…
Wrongful Conviction#305 Jason Flom with Raymond Allan Warren
On July 10, 1994, Wendell Scott Simpson was found dead in his car on Kilmer Street in Dayton, OH. Shortly after police arrived, they encountered 16 year old…
Wrongful Conviction#304 Guest Host Gilbert King with Robert DuBoise
On August 19, 1983, a 19-year-old woman was found raped and beaten to death in Tampa, FL. Police focused on 18-year-old Robert DuBoise who allegedly…
Wrongful Conviction#303 Jason Flom with Billie Allen
On March 18, 1997, two men exited a minivan and walked into the lobby of a bank in St. Louis, MO wearing ski masks and armed with semi-automatic rifles. Shots…
Wrongful Conviction#302 Guest Host Jimmy Dennis with Chester Hollman III
On August 20, 1991, 24-year-old Tae Jung Ho was robbed and shot to death while walking with a friend in Philadelphia, PA. A coincidence involving a rental car…
Wrongful Conviction#301 Jason Flom with Willie Timmy Donald
On February 27, 1992, Bernard Jiminez, along with his wife, Kimberly Belinsky, and three children were robbed at gunpoint in a neighborhood in Gary, Indiana…
Wrongful Conviction#300 Guest Host Earlonne Woods with Caramad Conley
In April 1989, a drive-by shooting in San Francisco, CA, left at least 11 people injured, and 2 people dead. Despite the lack of physical or forensic evidence…
Wrongful Conviction#299 Jason Flom with Terence Rice
On October 9th, 1990 at 12:10am, police responded to shots being fired at a housing project in Brooklyn, New York. They ended up arresting 23 year old Terence…
Wrongful Conviction#298 Guest Hosts David Rudolf & Sonya Pfeiffer with Michael Peterson
On December 9, 2001, Michael Peterson, an acclaimed novelist and one-time mayoral candidate, found his wife Kathleen dead at the bottom of their staircase in…
Wrongful Conviction#297 Jason Flom with Gary Benloss
On April 10, 2002, Victor Vulcain was shot and killed in broad daylight in front of 201 Linden Blvd. Brooklyn, NY. There were several witnesses, each of whom…
Wrongful Conviction#296 Guest Host Chris Fabricant with Gilbert Poole
On June 7, 1988, joggers discovered the body of 35 year old Robert Mejia on a running trail in the woods behind his apartment complex in Pontiac, MI. Mejia had…
Wrongful Conviction#295 Jason Flom with Ricky Kidd
On February 6, 1996, three men dressed in black fled in a white car after robbing and murdering George Bryant and Oscar Bridges at Bryant’s home in…
Wrongful Conviction#294 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Jarvis Ballard
On January 10, 1998, a 60-year-old woman was robbed and sexually assaulted in her home in Violet, LA. Upon his arrest, Ulysses Pierre implicated his cousin…
Wrongful Conviction#293 Jason Flom with Robert McClendon
On April 25, 1990, a 10 year old girl was allegedly abducted from her backyard in Columbus, OH. She said that a man grabbed her, pulled her over a fence, tied…
Wrongful Conviction#292 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Eric Blackmon
On July 4, 2002, two men shot and killed 36-year-old Tony Cox outside a restaurant in Chicago, IL. Suspecting the murder was gang-related, police arrested Eric…
Wrongful Conviction#291 Jason Flom with Clarence Harrison
On October 25 1986, a 25 year old woman was attacked as she walked to a bus stop in Decatur, GA. The assailant approached her, hit her in the face, and…
Wrongful Conviction#290 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Carl Williams
On January 13, 1994, two men hijacked the car of three travelers at a gas station in Chicago, IL, killing Reginald Wilson and Felicia Lewis. Carl Williams was…
Wrongful Conviction#289 Jason Flom with Andrew Royer
On November 28, 2002, 94-year-old Helen Sailor spent Thanksgiving with her family before returning to her apartment at a high rise building for the elderly and…
Wrongful Conviction#288 Jason Flom with Ken Middleton
On February 12th, 1990, a tragic accident occurred in which it is believed that Kathy Middleton mishandled a gun in her left hand, accidentally shooting…
Wrongful Conviction#287 Jason Flom with Vincent Simmons
In early May of 1977, Keith Laborde and his 14 year old twin cousins, Karen and Sharon Sanders, allegedly picked up a hitchhiking black man at a gas station in…
Wrongful Conviction#286 Jason Flom with James King - RE-RELEASE
James King has been sitting in prison for almost 25 years for a rape that he adamantly maintains he did not commit. His conviction strongly relied on the…
Wrongful Conviction#285 Maggie Freleng with Tammy Poole
When Tammy Poole and her husband Michael Poole argued, Tammy says that Michael would threaten to commit suicide. Then on April 22, 2007, in their hometown of…
Wrongful Conviction#284 Jason Flom and Greg Glod with John Jones - RE-RELEASE
At about 9:40 AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones awoke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she…
Wrongful Conviction#283 Maggie Freleng with Marni Yang
In October 2007, 42 year old Rhoni Reuter was shot and killed in her Chicago, IL apartment. She was 7 months pregnant by her boyfriend, Shaun Gayle. Gayle, a…
Wrongful Conviction#282 Jason Flom with Bobbie Jean Johnson - RE-RELEASE
In 1977, Arthur Samson was shot in the stomach and stabbed approximately 100 times inside his New Orleans, LA antique store. The store was ransacked, and the…
Wrongful Conviction#281 Maggie Freleng with Troy Burner
In the evening of April 21, 1990, two masked gunmen shot and killed 27 year old Michael Wilson while he was walking with a friend on a Washington D.C. street…
Wrongful Conviction#280 Jason Flom with Eduardo Dumbrique and John Klene
On June 28, 1997, 25-year-old member of the Lil Watts gang, Antonio Alarcon, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Hawthorne, California, by a rival gang…
Wrongful Conviction#279 Maggie Freleng with Sylvia Boykin
In May of 1992, Sylvia Boykin and Bernetta Pope were struggling with substance addiction. Pope owed Boykin money who, in turn, owed money to two younger men…
Wrongful Conviction#278 Jason Flom with Walter Goudy
On October 3, 1993, 21-year-old Marvin McCloud was leaving an after-hours club in Anderson, Indiana, when he was shot and killed in his car by two gunmen…
Wrongful Conviction#277 Maggie Freleng with Karen Boes
On the morning of July 30, 2002, Karen Boes left her Zeeland, Michigan home to meet a friend and go shopping while her 14 year old daughter Robin was home in…
Wrongful Conviction#276 Jason Flom with Charles McCrory
On May 31, 1985, Julie Bonds McCrory was found beaten to death in her home in Andalusia, Alabama. Julie’s husband, Charles McCrory, quickly became the…
Wrongful Conviction#275 Maggie Freleng with Kenneth Nixon
In the late night of May 19, 2005, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a Detroit, MI home, killing two children – a 20 month old girl and a 10 year old…
Wrongful Conviction#274 Jason Flom with Robert Roberson
2 year old Nicki Bowman had a history of respiratory issues that were raging in late January 2002 for which she was prescribed a drug that is now known to…
Wrongful Conviction#273 Jason Flom with Troy Coleman - NEW EVIDENCE
On September 26th, 1989, Kevin Jones and Arthur Sanders went to an apartment with $40,000 to buy cocaine, while the owner of the apartment, Troy Coleman, was…
Wrongful Conviction#272 Maggie Freleng with Alisha Burns
In 2002, 15 year old Alisha Burns ran away from her foster home with Steven Kaczmarek, a sex trafficker who then groomed her to act as a prostitute for…
Wrongful Conviction#271 Jason Flom with Howard Dudley
On October 13, 1991, Amy Moore, a nine year old with intellectual limitations, complained to her babysitter that her father, Howard Dudley, was "nasty,"…
Wrongful Conviction#270 Maggie Freleng with Karla Baday
On February 2, 2002, Maria Medina notified her former partner, Karla Baday, that three of her children had accused Baday of sexually molesting them. Maria said…
Wrongful Conviction#269 Jason Flom with Temujin Kensu
On November 5, 1986, Scott Macklem was shot and killed in a parking lot at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan. No one saw the shooter…
Wrongful Conviction#268 Maggie Freleng with Hank Skinner
On New Year’s Eve 1993 in Pampa, TX., Hank Skinner fell asleep early on his couch after being rendered comatose from a cocktail of vodka, xanax and…
Wrongful Conviction#267 Jason Flom with Evin King
On June 22, 1994, Crystal Hudson was found murdered in her bedroom closet in Cleveland, Ohio. She died of strangulation after being sexually assaulted. Evin…
Wrongful Conviction#266 Maggie Freleng with Faye Jacobs
February 9, 1992 started as a normal day for 16 year old Faye Jacobs – she attended church and hung out with friends in Little Rock, AR. When she and her…
Wrongful Conviction#265 Jason Flom with Keith Bush
In the early morning hours of January 11, 1975, 14-year-old Sherese Watson was murdered by strangulation after leaving a house party in Bellport, New York, and…
Wrongful Conviction#264 Maggie Freleng with Devonia Inman
On September 19, 1998, Donna Brown was closing a Taco Bell in Adel, GA after her second day on the job. As she left, she was robbed and fatally shot. Two…
Wrongful Conviction#263 Jason Flom with Robert Foxworth
On May 23, 1991, several men robbed Kenneth McLean in his apartment in Boston, MA. When McLean tried to run, one of the men chased and fatally shot McLean in…
Wrongful Conviction#262 Maggie Freleng with Brian Parnell
On August 28, 1997, Brian was staying overnight at his girlfriend’s house with his cousin, girlfriend, and girlfriend’s sister in West…
Wrongful Conviction#261 Jason Flom with Clay Chabot
On April 19, 1986, the body of a 28 year old woman was found in her bedroom in Garland, Texas. She had been tied, gagged, raped and shot three times. Clay…
Wrongful Conviction#260 Maggie Freleng with Mike Politte
On December 5, 1998, a 14 year old Mike Politte woke up to find his Mineral Point, MO home filled with smoke. When he checked on his mom, he found her on the…
Wrongful Conviction#259 Jason Flom with Alan Newton
In the early morning hours of June 23rd, 1984, 2 customers, a man and a woman, left a Bronx bodega. The store clerk said that the woman went with the man…
Wrongful Conviction#258 Maggie Freleng with Melvin Ortiz
On December 23, 1997, a botched robbery at a popular pizza restaurant in Reading, PA resulted in the death of its beloved owner, George Clauser. A reward in…
Wrongful Conviction#257 Jason Flom with Rickey Jackson
On May 19th, 1975, in front of a store in Cleveland, OH, two assailants robbed a man, splashed acid in his face, shot and killed him, and then fired into the…
Wrongful Conviction#256 Maggie Freleng with Patty Prewitt
After an evening out with friends in Holden, MO, high school sweethearts Bill and Patty Prewitt kissed their children goodnight and went to bed. Patty was soon…
Wrongful Conviction#255 Jason Flom with Dieter Tejada
On March 8th, 2008, the leader of a bat wielding group of high schoolers from a wealthy Connecticut town instigated a fight with Dieter Tejada. After Dieter…
Wrongful Conviction#254 Jason Flom with Chris Ochoa
In 1988, Chris Ochoa and his roommate Richard Danziger both worked at different Pizza Huts locations in Austin, Texas, when a robbery, rape, and murder…
Wrongful Conviction#253 Jason Flom on Melissa Lucio
Time is running out for Melissa Lucio. We must act now! Melissa Lucio had 12 children with twins on the way, when the family was moving to a new apartment at…
Wrongful Conviction#252 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#251 Jason Flom on Tim Cole
In the fall of 1984 and spring of '85, a serial rapist struck at least 4 times with eerily similar details. Meanwhile, a new student, Tim Cole, arrived on…
Wrongful Conviction#250 Jason Flom with Rodney Lincoln
In the early morning hours of April 27, 1982, 35 year old JoAnn Tate was stabbed in the chest and sexually assaulted while in her apartment in St. Louis, MO…
Wrongful Conviction#249 Jason Flom with Raphael Rowe
In December of 1988, 18 year old Londoner Raphael Rowe was living with 5 other men in social housing, when four violent robberies shocked Southeast England…
Wrongful Conviction#248 Jason Flom with Ken Middleton
On February 12th, 1990, a tragic accident occurred in which it is believed that Kathy Middleton mishandled a gun in her left hand, accidentally shooting…
Wrongful Conviction#247 Jason Flom with Ken Wyniemko
When 43 year old bowling alley manager Ken Wyniemko ejected an off duty cop from his establishment for drunk and disorderly conduct, he didn't think it would…