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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#246 Jason Flom with Clinton Young
At 18, Clinton Young was the youngest and newest member of a group of four acquaintances after he was released from juvenile prison in 2001. One of the four…
Wrongful Conviction#245 Jason Flom on Nelson Serrano
Successful businessman and Ecuadorian-American immigrant Nelson Serrano was in Atlanta on December 3rd, 1997, when 4 people were murdered execution stye at his…
Wrongful Conviction#243 Guest Host Patrick Pursley with Jacques Rivera
In 1988, 16 year old Felix Valentin was shot in his car in an alley on the West Side of Chicago. Before slipping into a coma and eventually death, he was able…
Wrongful Conviction#242 Jason Flom with Paul Cortez
On November 27, 2005, Catherine Woods was found viciously stabbed to death in her Upper Eastside apartment. At the time, her ex boyfriend David Haughn stayed…
Wrongful Conviction#241 Jason Flom with Jerome Loach
43 year old Jerome Loach was performing in a play at a church in South Philadelphia, PA on the evening of January 10, 2009. At the same time, police responded…
Wrongful Conviction#240 Jason Flom with Stephanie Spurgeon
Stephanie Spurgeon was a married mother of two who had been running a daycare facility from her home for 15 years. On August 21, 2008, Stephanie took care of 1…
Wrongful Conviction#239 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#238 Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian on Julius Jones
On July 28th, 1999, Julius Jones was playing monopoly with his family and soon to be a sophomore on an academic scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. That…
Wrongful Conviction#237 Jason Flom with Stefon Morant
On October 11th, 1990, former New Haven, CT alderman Ricardo Turner and his lover were shot dead in their bed. Detective Vincent Raucci knew just who to pin it…
Wrongful Conviction#236 Jason Flom with Thomas Haynesworth
In just the first month of 1984, five women from the ages of 18 to 20 were sexually assaulted in East Richmond, Virginia. One victim saw an 18 year old named…
Wrongful Conviction#235 Jason Flom with Amanda Brumfield
Amanda Brumfield, the estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton, was blamed for the death of her best friend’s daughter. On October 3, 2008, 1 year…
Wrongful Conviction#234 Jason Flom with Tyrone Noling
On April 5th, 1990, Bernhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, were shot to death in their Atwater, OH home with a .25 caliber gun. Miles away, 18-year-old Tyrone…
Wrongful Conviction#233 Jason Flom with Mark Denny
On December 20, 1987, at about 2 am, two masked men forced their way into a Burger King in Brooklyn, New York, as employees were closing. A third man entered…
Wrongful Conviction#232 Jason Flom with Dennis and Lee Horton
Brothers, Dennis and Lee Horton, were having a pleasant Memorial Day in 1993 until they decided to visit their father in North Philadelphia and ran into a…
Wrongful Conviction#231 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#230 Jason Flom with Ray Krone
On the morning of December 29th, 1991, the body of a 36 year old woman was found nude in the men’s restroom of the bar where she worked in Phoenix…
Wrongful Conviction#229 Jason Flom with Ronald Jacobsen
On January 6th, 1990, a 21 year old woman was working at a convenience store in Covington, Georgia. At around 4am, this woman, who we'll refer to as "BT," was…
Wrongful Conviction#228 Jason Flom with Carlton Roman
On March 16, 1989, Lloyd Witter and Jomo Kenyatta sustained several gunshot wounds at a residence in Jamaica, Queens. Witter died from his injuries. Paul…
Wrongful Conviction#227 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#226 Jason Flom with Atif Rafay
Atif Rafay was a thriving, brilliant, and happy student who had just finished his freshman year at Cornell University. On a weekend trip in July of 1994, while…
Wrongful Conviction#225 Jason Flom and Laura Nirider with Brendan Dassey
This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on October 2, 2019. In 2006, 16 year old Wisconsin special education student Brendan Dassey gave a…
Wrongful Conviction#224 Jason Flom with Eric Riddick
On November 6th, 1991, William Catlett was shot and killed on a street corner in West Philadelphia. Nearly all eyewitnesses identified a man named Edward…
Wrongful Conviction#223 Jason Flom with Joe D'Ambrosio
19 year old Anthony Klann was stabbed to death in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1988. Two men who had a lot to gain worked with detectives to spin a…
Wrongful Conviction#222 Jason Flom with Jarrett Adams and Dmitri Henley
3 Chicago teenagers went to a party at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where embarrassment turned a consensual encounter into a far-fetched gang rape…
Wrongful Conviction#221 Jason Flom with Anthony Sims
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 21, 2021. On May 18th, 1998, Charlie Winbush told her fiancé, Julius Graves, that a man…
Wrongful Conviction#220 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Emerson Stevens
Sometimes when detectives can't get a confession they'll settle for a something else Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin explore the story of Emerson Stevens, a…
Wrongful Conviction#219 Jason Flom with Patrick Pursley
This is an updated episode that originally aired on January 15, 2020. In this live audience recording at ComplexCon Chicago 2019, Patrick Pursley tells us how…
Wrongful Conviction#218 Jason Flom and Kim Kardashian on Julius Jones
This is an updated episode that originally aired on May 20, 2020. On July 28th, 1999, Julius Jones was playing monopoly with his family and soon to be a…
Wrongful Conviction#217 Jason Flom with Kevin Dykes
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 14, 2020. In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual…
Wrongful Conviction#216 Jason Flom with James King
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#215 Jason Flom with Greg Glod on John Jones
At about 9:40AM on March 19th, 2010, John Jones woke to find his daughter Jada unresponsive and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to the hospital where she remained…
Wrongful Conviction#214 Jason Flom with Troy Coleman
On September 26th, 1989, Kevin Jones and a friend drove to an apartment with $40,000 cash to buy cocaine. Jones went inside, while the friend waited down the…
Wrongful Conviction#213 Jason Flom with Joe Bryan
Joe Bryan was a high school principal, and his wife Mickey Bryan was a 4th-grade teacher in the small town of Clifton, TX. On Tuesday, October 15th, 1985…
Wrongful Conviction#212 Jason Flom with Curtis Flowers
On July 16, 1996, the owner of Tardy Furniture Company and three employees were found shot and killed. Curtis Flowers, who previously worked at the store, was…
Wrongful Conviction#211 Jason Flom with Marcus Wiggins
At age 13, Marcus Wiggins became one of many young black men to be tortured into a false statement by sadistic Chicago PD Detective Commander Jon Burge and his…
Wrongful Conviction#210 Jason Flom with Richard Glossip
On January 7th, 1997, the owner of the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City was beaten to death with a baseball bat at his motel by admitted killer, thief, and…
Wrongful Conviction#209 Jason Flom with Ronnie Long
This is an updated episode that originally aired on July 29, 2020. On the night of April 25th, 1976, a wealthy, 54 year old widow was burglarized and sexually…
Wrongful Conviction#208 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Cooperating)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#207 Jason Flom with Melissa Lucio
On February 17th, 2007, paramedics were dispatched to a residence where they found an unresponsive two-year-old child who subsequently died. Evidence of abuse…
Wrongful Conviction#206 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Immigration Status)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#205 Jason Flom with James Davis
This is an updated episode that originally aired on August 12, 2020. On January 24th, 2004, a party at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple devolved into violence…
Wrongful Conviction#204 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (On a Jury - Deliberation)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#203 Jason Flom with Chris Fabricant, Tucker Carrington and John Grisham on Eddie Lee Howard
Eddie Lee Howard was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for the rape and murder of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp in Columbus, MS. The only physical evidence…
Wrongful Conviction#202 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (On a Jury - Trial)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#201 Jason Flom with Dewey Bozella
This budding boxer's biggest fight was with a prosecutor who was willing to ignore and hide overwhelming evidence of Dewey's innocence in order to convict him…
Wrongful Conviction#200 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Routine Traffic Stop)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#199 Jason Flom with Al Cleveland
A notorious informant father and son duo traded false information for $2k, wrongfully ensnaring 4 young men in the criminal legal system - one of whom was…
Wrongful Conviction#198 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Routine Foot Stop)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#197 Jason Flom with Enes Kanter
An NBA center speaks truth to power in his native Turkey, drawing the ire of the authoritarian regime who exacted their revenge on his father, Dr Mehmet…
Wrongful Conviction#196 Jason Flom with Gary Drinkard
A man is sent to death row by his half sister and her boyfriend in exchange for leniency from a crooked detective and an even worse prosecutor’s office…
Wrongful Conviction#195 Wrongful Conviction Podcasts PSA - What to Do When Stopped by the Police (Home Search Warrant)
Jason Flom (“Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom” podcast) and Rabia Chaudry (“Undisclosed" podcast) got together to create a series of PSAs…
Wrongful Conviction#194 Jason Flom with Alexis Ke'Erica Martin
15 year-old Alexis Ke’Erica Martin was aware that her ex-boyfriend was about to free her from sex trafficker, Angelo Kerney, but didn’t know that…
Wrongful Conviction#193 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - SPECIAL UPDATE
Illinois, New York, and Oregon move to outlaw deception by interrogators. Deception, of course, is a long-recognized risk factor for false confessions. The…
Wrongful Conviction#192 Jason Flom with Glen Assoun
A Nova Scotia man was targeted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend despite a rock solid alibi and evidence pointing toward a man later discovered to be a…
Wrongful Conviction#191 Jason Flom with Ru-El Sailor
A night out in November 2002 turned deadly when Nicole Hubbard called for her protective older brother Cordell. Then, Ru-El Sailor took the fall for his best…
Wrongful Conviction#190 Jason Flom with Joann Parks
On April 9th, 1989, a fire took JoAnn Parks’ 3 children. Originally ruling the fire an accident, the nonscientific arson investigation - just as…
Wrongful Conviction#189 Jason Flom with Nelson Cruz
On March 28th, 1998, Nelson Cruz was celebrating his birthday over Chinese food with friends when they heard shots fired down the block. Police were…
Wrongful Conviction#188 Jason Flom with Paul Hildwin
On September 9th, 1985, Paul Hildwin went hitchhiking, stole and cashed a personal check, but did not murdered anyone. However, both the state and cancer found…
Wrongful Conviction#187 Jason Flom with Anthony Apanovitch
On August 23rd, 1984, Mary Anne Flynn was found dead in her Cleveland, OH bedroom. She had been strangled and severely beaten and there was evidence she had…
Wrongful Conviction#186 Jason Flom with Alfred DeWayne Brown
On April 3rd, 2003, 3 men robbed a check cashing store in Houston, TX, killing the clerk and the responding officer. When it comes to convictions, getting 2…