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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 Podcasts445: #445 Jason Flom with Donte West
On March 8, 2016, Officer Nicholas Blake became suspicious of two vehicles traveling together on Interstate 70 toward Manhattan, KS due to their appearance and…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsBonus Episode | Leo's Parole Hearing Comes to a Close but it's not Over
Leo Schofield’s parole hearing in Tallahassee, FL, April 17th, 2024 with reporting from Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker. Bone Valley is a production of Lava for…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts444: #444 Jason Flom with Rafael Martinez
Authorities believe Rafael Martinez, his brothers Lorenzo Martinez, Daniel Martinez and Isidoro Medina-DeLeon killed Jose ‘Chino’ Jiminez because Mr. Jiminez…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsIntroducing - Season 2 of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse
The second season of PROOF: Murder at the Warehouse takes Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis to Manteca, CA where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts443: #443 Jason Flom with Mario Casciaro
On December 21, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick, a stock boy at Val’s Foods, a grocery store in Johnsburg, IL, was reported missing by his mother. Police…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts442: #442 Maggie Freleng with Amer Zada
In the early morning hours of June 15, 1979, 17-year-old Amer Zada’s truck stalled out near the waterfront in Nyack, NY. While he waited for a ride, Amer…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts441: #441 Jason Flom with Jeremy Puckett
On March 14, 1998, Anthony Galati was found murdered along the side of a road in Rancho Cordova, CA. The case went cold until October 1999, when Israel Septs…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts440: #440 Maggie Freleng with Cassandra Black Elk
On the morning of February 19th, 2022, Cassandra Black Elk awoke to find her three-week-old daughter StarLight lifeless beside her. Police insisted the baby…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts439: #439 Jason Flom with Glynn Simmons
Two gunmen robbed a liquor store in Edmond, OK, on December 30, 1974. The gunmen fatally shot an employee and left an eyewitness injured. At this time, police…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts438: #438 Maggie Freleng with Catina Curley
On March 30th, 2005, police were called to a home in New Orleans, LA. There, they found Renaldo Curley dead of a single gunshot wound. His estranged wife…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts437: #437 Jason Flom with James Kluppleberg
In the early morning hours of March 24,1984, a fire erupted on the first floor of an apartment building in Chicago, IL. The fire destroyed the building and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts436: #436 Maggie Freleng with Evaristo Salas
Jose Arreola was shot to death inside a pickup truck on November 14, 1995, in Sunnyside, WA. Five months later, a police informant identified a local teenager…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts435: #435 Jason Flom with Chris Smith
In 2007, a man wearing a wig and sunglasses entered a Bell Wireless store on the west side of Cincinnati, OH brandishing a gun. He ordered the patrons to the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts433: #433 Jason Flom with Carl Miller
On October 25, 1979, Rabbi David Okunov was robbed and fatally shot while on his way to temple in Brooklyn, New York. Two eyewitnesses described the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts432: #432 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 Podcasts434: #434 Maggie Freleng with Kim Hoover
On November 29, 2002, 7-month-old Samaisha Benson began to struggle to breathe while under the care of childcare provider Kim Hoover. After being taken to the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts431: #431 Jason Flom with Tyrone Clark
On Saturday, June 23, 1973, a man attacked Anne Kane outside of her apartment in Boston, MA. The man forced her inside, beat her, robbed her, raped her, and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts430: #430 Maggie Freleng with Lorinda Swain
“When I tell people that I was sentenced 25 to 50 years, they automatically assume that I was accused of murder,” says Lorinda Swain. “And I always tell them…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts429: #429 Jason Flom with Greg Brown
A house in Pittsburgh, PA, went up in flames on February 14, 1995, killing three firefighters while they were trying to put out the fire. A week later, a…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts428: #428 Maggie Freleng with Gary Williams
In February of 1999, 86-year-old Rosemary “Mama Rose” Williams arrived at a hospital in Queens NY, claiming that she’d been raped at knifepoint. She named her…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts427: #427 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 Podcasts426: #426 Maggie Freleng with Jason Walton
On a November Sunday in 2005, two 14-year-olds were shot outside of a street carnival in South Central Los Angeles, CA. One of the teenagers died, but the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts425: #425 Jason Flom with Larry Smith Jr.
In the early morning of March 24, 1994, 20-year-old Kenneth Hayes was getting out of his car when someone emerged from the bushes, chased him down, and fatally…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts424: #424 Maggie Freleng with Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance
In February of 1993, 70-year-old Anthony Dolff was found murdered in his home in Saskatchewan, Canada. That morning, indigenous sisters Odelia and Nerissa…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts423: #423 Jason Flom with Fabian Santiago
Several shots were fired from an alley toward a group of friends on the night of January 16, 1993, in Chicago, IL. One person was fatally shot and two others…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts422: #422 Maggie Freleng with Angela Garcia
In November of 1999, a fire broke out in Angela Garcia’s home in Cleveland, OH. Angela jumped out of a second-story window and ran for help, but her two young…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts421: #421 Jason Flom with James Gibson
On December 22, 1989, two men were fatally shot at a garage on the south side of Chicago, IL. Twenty-three-year-old James Gibson was falsely implicated in the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts420: #420 Maggie Freleng with Wilson Rivera
On September 15, 1993, two gunmen entered a home in Detroit, Michigan, and murdered Lavonda Brown and her son, 20-year old Douglas Williams. Detroit police…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts419: #419 Jason Flom with Matt Huang
On January 15, 2013, Matt Huang’s eight-year-old adopted daughter, Gloria, unexpectedly passed away in Doha, Qatar. Despite the fact that Gloria had a variety…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts418: #418 Maggie Freleng with Nikki Zinger
On March 8, 1991, 27-year-old Nikki Zinger and her boyfriend Daniel Risher returned home to find Nikki's mother brutally murdered. Despite there being no…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts417: #417 Jason Flom with Larry Walker
In May of 1983, Clyde Coleman was fatally shot at his home in Philadelphia, PA. Eyewitnesses reported seeing three men fleeing the scene. But when police found…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts416: #416 Jason Flom and Maggie Freleng with Andre Brown (Live from the UJC Summit 2023)
This special edition of Wrongful Conviction was recorded on December 1, 2023 live from the United Justice Coalition (UJC) Summit in New York City. This annual…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsWrongful Conviction 2024 - Trailer
Lava for Good’s critically acclaimed Wrongful Conviction podcast, co-hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts415: #415 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 mom…
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414: #414 Guest Host John Huffington with Elmer Daniels
On January 15, 1980, in Wilmington, DE, a 15-year-old girl, "G.S," reported she had been raped alongside the railroad tracks. The victim and her young male…
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413: #413 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 PodcastsIntroducing: Radical
Hi, Wrongfrul Conviction fans! Tenderfoot TV, iHeartPodcasts, and Campside Media have teamed up for a riveting podcast called Radical. Hosted by journalist…
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412: #412 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…
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411: #411 Jason Flom with John Jerome White
Early on the morning of August 11, 1979, an intruder broke into a Manchester, GA home to find a 74-year-old woman asleep on her couch. The man beat and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts410: #410 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome
Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's exploration of Shaken Baby Syndrome on Wrongful…
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409: #409 Jason Flom with Terry Ceasor
On October 3, 2004, in Port Huron, MI, Terry Ceasor was at home alone with his girlfriend Cheryl’s 1 year old son, Brenden. Terry and Brenden had been playing…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts408: #408 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony
Josh Dubin discusses Eyewitness Testimony with renowned psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies human…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts407: #407 Jason Flom with Jerome Dixon
Just after midnight on July 25, 1990, a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Oakland, CA. Shortly after the shooting, police…
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406: #406 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Roadside Drug Test Evidence
Josh Dubin examines Roadside Drug Testing with Greg Glod, Criminal Justice Senior Policy Fellow. Faulty tests, which cost police departments $2 a piece or…
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405: #405 Jason Flom with Pierre Rushing
On April 15, 2011, Dawone Taylor was murdered in Oakland, CA over a dispute about an allegedly stolen ipod. Pierre Rushing, a promising young musician who…
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404: #404 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Coerced Confession Evidence
Josh Dubin does a deep dive into the psychology behind Coerced Confession Evidence with David Rudolf, criminal defense and civil rights attorney, and co-host…
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403: #403 Jason Flom with Gilbert King on the Groveland Four
On July 16, 1949, 17-year-old Norma Padgett and her estranged husband, Willie Padgett, reported to police that they had been attacked by four black men in Lake…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts402: #402 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Tool Mark Analysis
The notion that tools leave a unique mark on a surface is commonly presented to unsuspecting juries. But, it turns out that it's not necessarily the case at…
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401: #401 Guest Host Ashley Fantz with Marvin Anderson
On July 17, 1982, in Hanover County, VA, a white woman was brutally raped by a black man who was a total stranger. During the rape, the man beat her and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts400: #400 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Gunshot Residue Evidence
Of all the many faulty forensic sciences, Gunshot Residue certainly has some truly startling and scary issues that began almost a century ago. Josh Dubin…
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399: #399 Jason Flom with Sean Tyler and Reginald Henderson
On March 29, 1994, 10-year-old Rodney Collins was fatally shot while riding his bike after being caught in a crossfire between two street gangs in Chicago, IL…
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398: #398 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Fingerprint Evidence
Contrary to what pop culture has ingrained in the American conscience, matching known fingerprints of a suspect to prints left at the scene of a crime is not…
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397: #397 Guest Host Kemba Smith with Leon Benson
On August 8th, 1998, 25-year-old Kasey Schoen was shot and killed while sitting in his car in Indianapolis, IN. A few days later, a man approached officers and…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsIntroducing - Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands
Twenty-two-year-old Elma Sands is found murdered in a Manhattan well on January 2nd, 1800. Her lover, wealthy and well-connected Levi Weeks, is accused of the…
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396: #396 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Footwear Comparison Evidence
Even when done correctly, impression analysis of evidence, like shoe prints and tire tracks, is purely subjective. Many experts recognize its limitations. But…
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395: #395 Jason Flom with Sullivan Walter
On the night of May 10, 1985, a 35-year-old woman was attacked and sexually assaulted in her home in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans, LA. The victim…
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394: #394 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Hair Microscopy Evidence
Even when examined under a microscope, the similarities that can be observed between two hairs are open to wide interpretation, there are no definitive traits…
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393: #393 Guest Host Tiffany Reese with Patrick Brown
On February 21, 1994, in New Orleans, LA, a 6-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after complaining of pain and unusual vaginal discharge. The doctors…
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392: #392 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Arson Evidence - UPDATE
Built on a foundation of conjecture and best guesses that were never adequately tested according to any valid scientific principles, arson evidence experts…
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391: #391 Jason Flom with George Toca
On April 23, 1984 a couple was robbed at gunpoint by two perpetrators outside a convenience store in New Orleans, LA. The couple fought back, which resulted in…