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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 Podcasts335: #335 Maggie Freleng with Charles Jackson
On April 7, 1991, Joe Travis was found dead from a single gunshot wound to the head in an apartment complex in Cleveland, OH. Witnesses indicated the murder…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts334: #334 Jason Flom with Anthony Sims - UPDATE
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 named Li…
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333: #333 Maggie Freleng with Ashley Jordan
Ashley and Albert Debelbot met in the Army, got married and had their first child together, McKenzy, on May 29, 2008. Days later, Ashley noticed a bump on her…
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332: #332 Jason Flom with Dean Gillispie
On August 20, 1988, 22-year-old twin sisters C.W. and B.W. were kidnapped by a gunman as they got into their car in Dayton, OH. The gunman pointed a handgun at…
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331: #331 Maggie Freleng with Deborah Nicholls
One evening in March, 2003, a fire broke out in Deborah Nicholls' Colorado Springs, CO home, killing her three children. Her husband suffered significant…
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330: #330 Jason Flom with Tysheem Crocker
In October 1997, Skip Clark was killed in York, PA. Police officers decided that the death was gang related, and that two gangs were out for each other after…
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329: #329 Maggie Freleng with Brandon Woodruff
On October 16, 2005, Dennis and Norma Woodruff were found murdered in their Royse City, TX home. Their son Brandon, a freshman in college, had been visiting…
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328: #328 Jason Flom with Keith Cooper
On October 29, 1996, two gunmen broke into Michael Kershner’s apartment in Elkhart, IN and robbed Kershner, his mother and four friends. After fighting back…
Wrongful Conviction PodcastsIntroducing: The War on Drugs
This is the trailer for the new podcast called The War on Drugs from Lava for Good Podcasts. If you like what you hear you can find and follow The War on Drugs…
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327: #327 Maggie Freleng with Hope White
On July 19, 2008, a police officer found the body of Julie Burchett in her parked car in an abandoned pallet mill in Monticello, KY. Hope and her boyfriend…
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326: #326 Jason Flom with Octavius Williams
In 2011, 17 year old Octavius Williams was at a Halloween party hosted by his father and his father’s girlfriend in Cleveland, OH. Toward the end of the party…
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325: #325 Maggie Freleng with Johnetta Carr
On October 23, 2005, Planes Adolphe was found in front of his Louisville, KY apartment, robbed and murdered. Police were led to a man named Steve, but Steve…
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S1 Ep324: #324 Jason Flom with Peter Pringle - UPDATE
This is an updated episode that originally aired on February 20, 2017. On July 7th, 1980, three masked robbers robbed the Bank of Ireland at Ballaghaderreen…
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323: #323 Maggie Freleng with Tasha Shelby
On May 30, 1997, Tasha Shelby found her two and half year old toddler having a seizure on his bedroom floor. Bryan was pronounced dead at the hospital the…
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322: #322 Jason Flom with Barry Beach Pt.2
In June of 1979, a 17 year old girl was found brutally murdered near Fort Peck, Montana. 17 year old Barry Beach was a classmate of hers and learned of her…
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321: #321 Jason Flom with Barry Beach Pt.1
In June of 1979, a 17 year old girl was found brutally murdered near Fort Peck, Montana. 17 year old Barry Beach was a classmate of hers and learned of her…
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Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 2 - TRAILER
Pulitzer prize winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng returns for Season 2 of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng. Maggie shares intimate…
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320: #320 Jason Flom with Lamonte McIntyre - UPDATE #2
This is an updated episode that originally aired on September 25, 2017. On the afternoon of April 15th, 1994, two men were sitting in a powder-blue Cadillac in…
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319: #319 Jason Flom with Terrence Hobbs
One month apart in 1996, two crimes occurred in Portsmouth, VA. Terrence Hobbs was arrested and convicted for both of them, but he committed neither. In the…
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#318 Guest Host Lauren Bright Pacheco with Mark Schand
On September 2, 1986, a Springfield, MA drug deal turned into an armed robbery, which turned into the death of an innocent bystander named Victoria Seymour…
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317: #317 Jason Flom with Elvis Brooks
On July 1, 1977, the Welcome Inn bar in New Orleans, LA was robbed by two armed men and a bar patron, Cecil Lloyd, was killed. Weeks after the crime, 19 year…
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316: #316 Guest Host Laura Nirider with Vincent Ellerbe
Just past 1am on November 26, 1995, 50 year old Harry Kaufman was working the token booth at a subway station in Brooklyn, NY, when multiple men set the booth…
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315: #315 Jason Flom with Michael VonAllmen
On October 10, 1982, a 22-year-old woman was abducted at gunpoint outside a tavern in Louisville, KY and taken to a nearby park where she was beaten, raped and…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts314: #314 Guest Host Kemba Smith with Joyce Watkins
In the summer of 1987, Joyce Watkins received a call from her sister asking for help caring for their 4 year old great niece who lived in Georgia. Joyce agreed…
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313: #313 Jason Flom with Antwaun Cubie
On June 1, 1996, Kevin Jackson and Antwaun Cubie accompanied Jeremy Bruder to buy a set of rims for his Jeep. When they arrived, Kevin and Jeremy went to make…
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312: #312 Guest Host Laura Nirider with Devontae Sanford
On September 17, 2007, two men broke into a home in Detroit, MI and fatally shot four people. 14 year old Davontae Sanford, who lived nearby, went outside in…
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311: #311 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…
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310: #310 Guest Host Laura Nirider with Herman Williams
In 1993, Herman Williams, a decorated member of the US Navy, was stationed in Waukegan, IL where he lived with his ex-wife, Penny, and their two children. On…
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309: #309 Jason Flom with Jace Washington
On April 29, 2007, six undocumented immigrants from El Salvador were living in a trailer in Slidell, LA when they were robbed at gunpoint. The robbery went…
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308: #308 Guest Host Amanda Knox with Heidi Fero
On January 7, 2002, Heidi Fero was taking care of 15 month old Brynn and her 4.5 year old brother, Kaed, along with her own two similarly aged children. That…
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307: #307 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…
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306: #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…
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305: #305 Jason Flom with Raymond Allen 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…
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304: #304 Guest Host Gilbert King with Robert DuBoise
On August 18, 1974, 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 “caused…
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303: #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…
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302: #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…
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301: #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…
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300: #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…
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299: #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…
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298: #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…
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297: #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…
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296: #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…
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295: #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 Kansas…
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294: #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…
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293: #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 PodcastsS1 Ep1: Bone Valley: Chapter 1 | God Help Us
Author Gilbert King receives a message from a Florida judge who claims that there is an innocent man in prison, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife back in…
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292: #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…
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291: #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 PodcastsBone Valley Trailer #2
In 1987, 21-year-old guitarist Leo Schofield was pursuing his rockstar dreams when his teenage wife Michelle was found dead in a phosphate mining pit in…
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290: #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 PodcastsIntroducing: Bone Valley
In 1987, 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was found dead in a phosphate pit in Florida. Two years later, her husband Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts#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…
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Wrongful Conviction Guest Host Series - Trailer
Lava For Good is proud to launch a new guest-hosted series in our Wrongful Conviction Podcast feed. Every week starting September 12, we will debut a special…
Wrongful Conviction Podcasts#288 Jason Flom with Ken Middleton - UPDATE
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…
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#287 Jason Flom with Vincent Simmons - UPDATE
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…
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#286 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 Podcasts#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 Podcasts#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…
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#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…
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#282 Jason Flom with Bobbie Jean Johnson
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…