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Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Based on the files of the lawyers who freed them, Wrongful Conviction features interviews with men and women who have spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit – some of them had even been sentenced to death. These are their stories.
Episodes
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts500: #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 Podcasts499: #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 Woods…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts498: #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 Podcasts497: #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 convicted of murdering his…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts496: #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 Podcasts495: #495 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 Podcasts494: #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 Cahill…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts493: #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 Podcasts493: #493 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 Podcasts491: #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 Podcasts490: #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 Podcasts489: #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 Podcasts488: #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 Podcasts487: #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…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts486: #486 Maggie Freleng with James Degorski
On January 8, 1993, seven employees at a Brown’s Chicken and Pasta in Palatine, IL. were brutally murdered. With no solid physical evidence, police…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts485: #485 Jason Flom with Lamont Hunter
January 18, 2006, 3-year-old Trustin Blue tumbled down his basement stairs in Cincinnati, OH, became unresponsive, and later brain dead. Trustin had been under…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts484: #484 Maggie Freleng with Ben Spencer
On the evening of March 22, 1987 a businessman and father were robbed and killed in Dallas, TX. Just a few days later, 22-year-old Benjamine Spencer, a…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts483: #483 Jason Flom with Arvel Marshall
On the night of July 15, 2008, 22-year-old Moustapha Oumaria was shot and killed while hanging out with three friends outside his Crown Heights, NY home. The…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts482: #482 Maggie Freleng with Eddie Ramirez
In the winter of 1995, Joyce Dennis was killed during her closing shift at a laundromat in North Philadelphia, PA. Police then rounded up a group of teenagers…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts481: #481 Jason Flom with Chris Turner
On the morning of December 9th, 1984, 19-year-old Christopher Turner woke up to the police breaking into his bedroom with guns drawn. He was arrested for the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts480: #480 Maggie Freleng with Marty Levingston
On December 28, 2007, a young man was shot and killed outside an apartment complex in Cincinnati, OH. Ten days later, an eyewitness identified Marty Levingston…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts479: #479 Jason Flom with Eric Brown
On August 25, 1994, a woman found her boyfriend shot dead in his Louisiana apartment. His stolen car was found across from 16-year-old Eric Brown’s sister’s…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts478: #478 Maggie Freleng with Tonia MIller
Shortly after 18-year-old Tonia Miller brought her newborn home in Calhoun County, MI in 2001, she noticed something was off. Her baby wouldn’t eat much and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts477: #477 Jason Flom with Roosevelt Myles
Shortly before 3 a.m. on November 16, 1992, 16-year-old Shaharain Brandon was shot and killed in Chicago, IL. An eyewitness who was with Shaharain at the time…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts476: #476 Maggie Freleng with Marvin Haynes
In 2004, Marvin Haynes was a pretty average 16-year-old — watching Nickelodeon, chasing trends and girls, just having a good time. “I just couldn't wait for…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts475: #475 Jason Flom with Leslie Vass
One morning in February of 1975, 17-year-old high school basketball star Leslie Vass was running an errand for his mother at the local pharmacy in Baltimore…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts474: #474 Maggie Freleng with Andre Causey
On August 11, 1991, the body of a young woman was found outside an apartment building in Austin, TX. A bystander reported a black man rubbernecking at the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts473: #473 Jason Flom with Robbie Roberson
On January 31, 2002, Robbie Roberson was awakened at his home in Palestine, TX by a cry and went to find his two year old daughter, Nikki Curtis, on the floor…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsWrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 4 - TRAILER
Pulitzer Prize winner and iHeartPodcast 2024 Social Impact Award Honoree Maggie Freleng brings compelling stories of redemption and justice with new episodes…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts472: #472 Jason Flom with Kevin Dykes
In June 1986, Kevin Dykes witnessed the attempted murder of 2 people and the actual murder of a 3rd person in his neighborhood in Compton, CA. Kevin decided to…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts471: #471 Jason Flom with Steven Carrington
After a short stint in prison, Steven Carrington was a newlywed father, training to be an EMT and getting his life back on track. But when the police came…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts470: #470 Jason Flom with Chris Vaughn
On June 14, 2007, 32-year-old Christopher Vaughn was found limping on the side of the road near Joliet, IL, bleeding from two gunshot wounds. When police…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts469: #469 Jason Flom with Calvin Buari
In the early 1990s, Calvin Buari was a well-known crack cocaine distributor in the Bronx, NY. In 1992, a disgruntled associate who had recently shot Calvin…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts468: #468 Jason Flom with Terrel Barros
Terrel Barros and his friends thought they were just going out clubbing until a tragic encounter changed all that. Then, authorities compounded that tragedy by…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts467: #467 Jason Flom with Jerome Curry
Jerome Curry was arrested in connection with several shootings in the Bronx, NY, on September 20, 1996. When taken in for questioning, Jerome faced verbal and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts466: #466 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Joe Giarrantano
One morning in February 1979, 21-year-old Joe Giarratano woke up to a horrific scene. Two of his housemates had been brutally murdered. Joe had a drop of blood…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts465: #465 Jason Flom with David Ayala
On August 16, 1981, shots were fired from a gangway into Piotrowski Park on the southwest side of Chicago, IL. As a result, two people were fatally shot, and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts464: #464 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Jofama Coleman
In 2003, 20-year-old Jofama Coleman was just getting his life together - he had a stable job, a nice place to live, a girlfriend, and a baby on the way. After…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts463: #463 Jason Flom with Ashunte & Willie Smith
On April 8, 1995, Reggie Lewis’s body was found in a creek behind the Dalebridge Apartments in Warrensville Heights, OH. He had two gunshot wounds to the back…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts462: #462 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Greg Bright
Greg Bright was wrongfully convicted in New Orleans, LA for the murder of Elliot Porter in 1975. He would spend more than 27 years in Angola, the notorious…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts461: #461 Jason Flom with Anthony Legion
On January 24, 2001, a man was fatally shot while being chased from a home in Detroit, MI. Anthony Legion was one of three men who were identified as being in…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts460: #460 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Alan Beaman Pt. 2
In Part 1, the Beaman family’s lives were torn apart by Alan’s wrongful conviction for the murder of Jennifer Lockmiller. It would take 13 years and the best…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts459: #459 Jason Flom with Melissa Calusinski
On January 14, 2009, sixteen-month-old Benjamin Kingan died after being in daycare at a suburb outside of Chicago, IL. Despite no physical signs of abuse or…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts458: #458 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Alan Beaman Pt. 1
Alan Beaman was 21 years old when his life was forever altered. Going into his senior year in college, he suddenly found himself ensnared in the Normal, IL…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts457: #457 Jason Flom with Robert Almodovar at the 2024 Innocence Conference
Shortly before 1 a.m. on September 1, 1994, a car pulled up in front of an apartment building in Chicago, IL and a passenger fired several gunshots at a group…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts456: #456 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Frank Benitez
On April 28th, 1989, 18-year-old Francisco Benitez was having a normal day. He picked up his paycheck, got a haircut, then went to his friend’s house to watch…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts455: #455 Jason Flom with Darrell Siggers at the 2024 Innocence Conference
Shortly before midnight on February 16, 1984, James Montgomery was shot and killed as he walked with two friends on the eastside of Detroit, MI. Montgomery’s…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts454: #454 Lauren Bright Pacheco with James Soto
When he was just 20 years old, an act of violence changed James “Jimmy” Soto’s life forever. Despite no physical evidence and numerous alibi witnesses, Jimmy…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts453: #453 Jason Flom with Jennifer McMullan at the 2024 Innocence Conference
On March 6, 2001, two masked men attempted to rob a small restaurant in McHenry, IL. The owner, wielding a butcher knife, and his employee chased the men out…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts452: #452 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Miguel Solorio
In December 1998, 81-year old Mary Bramlett was killed in a drive-by shooting near Whittier, CA. That same night, Miguel Solorio went to the movies with his…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts451: #451 Jason Flom with Ricardo Gray
In September of 1998, a shooting took place in Cleveland Ohio’s Kinsman neighborhood resulting in one fatality. According to eyewitness testimony, Ricardo Gray…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts450: #450 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Michelle Morrison
In 2009, Michelle Morrison was convicted on a felony murder charge along with aggravated assault, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, and conspiracy over…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts449: #449 Jason Flom with Frederick Willie Kearse
On August 6, 1993, Devon “Dog” Brown and Raymondo “Ray” Frazier exited a bodega in Brooklyn, NY, when at least two people fired a slew of bullets from a…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsIntroducing: Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco - Trailer
Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco. Ten new, inspiring episodes of Wrongful Conviction, hosted by Lauren Bright Pacheco, that celebrate the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts448: #448 Jason Flom with Chris Miller
On April 28, 2001, two men attacked a woman as she returned home in Cleveland Heights, OH. The men sexually assaulted her and then left with various items…
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Introducing: Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco
Jason welcomes Lauren to the team and they chat about the upcoming season launching on May 27th. Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco is a production…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts447: #447 Jason Flom with Darien Harris
On the evening of June 7, 2011, police responded to a shooting at a gas station in Chicago, IL, and found one victim dead and another wounded. Relying on…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsIntroducing: Ozarks True Crime - The Sandra Hemme Story
In season three of Ozarks True Crime, host Anne Roderique-Jones returns to her home state of Missouri to report on the case of Sandra Hemme: a person living…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts446: #446 Jason Flom with Dan Carnevale
A fire erupted in the basement of an apartment building in Pittsburgh, PA, on January 17, 1993, killing three people. Arson officials believed the fire was set…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsIntroducing: The Burden
In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals…