Wrongful Conviction
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About this podcast
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 continue to languish, with some even facing execution on death row. Each episode peels back the layers behind the stories of those who have found themselves caught in a legal system gone wrong, with illuminating insights from lawyers and leading experts sharing their in-depth knowledge about each case, from prison visits and courtroom battles to reexamined crime scenes and witness interviews. This gripping series reveals the tragedy of injustice…as well as the triumph that is possible when people step up and demand change.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 604 episodes
- #599 Jason Flom with Lauren Bright Pacheco & Robert Motta on Christopher Vaughn & Lindsay Clancy · 46 min · Episode 599Jason Flom sits down with journalist and podcast host Lauren Bright Pacheco and criminal defense attorney and podcast host Robert Motta to examine two devastating family…
- #598 Jason Flom with Ray Krone · 41 min · Episode 598On 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, Arizona. She had been…
- #597 Maggie Freleng with Gwen Graham · 38 min · Episode 597Maggie Freleng first brought us the story of Gwen Graham of 2023. Gwen has now spent more than 37 years in a Michigan prison for murders they’ve has always maintained never even…
- #596 Jason Flom with Terrel Barros · 30 min · Episode 596The last time Terrel Barros’s story was featured on the show, there had been a major breakthrough. After spending 11 years in prison for a murder he has always maintained he…
- #595 Jason Flom with Kristine Bunch · 44 min · Episode 595This week’s episode is an update on the story of Kristine Bunch that was originally recorded in 2020. Kristine spent 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of…
- #594 Jason Flom with Greg Bright · 1 h 2 min · Episode 594This week’s episode is a look back at the story of Greg Bright, as originally told to Lauren Bright Pacheco. Greg spent 27 and a half years in Angola for a murder he didn’t…
- #593 Jason Flom with Jeffrey Deskovic · 56 min · Episode 593Jeffrey Deskovic’s first Wrongful Conviction episode was originally published in 2017, and his story is one we’ve returned to many times over the years — not only because of the…
- Introducing - The Devil's Quarry II: Preview · 6 minWhen teenager Robin Murphy goes missing, her friends and co-workers organize a search. Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul…
- #592 Jason Flom with Anthony DiPippo · 52 min · Episode 592This special episode was recorded in 2017 with Anthony DiPippo, 6 months after his release from prison. Anthony’s case concerns the murder of Josette Wright, a 12-year-old girl…
- Introducing - The Devil's Quarry II · 3 minIf Season 1 of The Devil’s Quarry was a horror story, Season 2 is a ghost story. More than 30 years after 17-year-old Robin Murphy vanished from Carmel, New York, investigative…
- #591 Jason Flom with Andrew Krivak · 1 h 4 min · Episode 591This special edition of Wrongful Conviction Behind Bars was recorded inside of Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Buffalo, NY with Andrew Krivak, and his…
- #590 Jason Flom with Jens Soering · 1 h 2 min · Episode 590In 1990, Jens Söering was convicted of murdering his then-girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom’s parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom, in their Bedford County, Virginia home. Jens, who says he…
- #589 Jason Flom with Tyrone Noling · 41 min · Episode 589On 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 Noling was involved in…
- #588 In Memory of Jason Strong | Jason Flom with Jason Strong · 41 min · Episode 588This episode is re-released in loving memory of Jason Strong. Rest in Peace and Power Jason Lee Strong August 3, 1975 – August 8, 2026 In December 1999, the body of an…
- #587 Maggie Freleng with Deborah Nicholls · 38 min · Episode 587One evening in March, 2003, a fire broke out in Deborah Nicholls' Colorado Springs, CO home, killing her three children. Her husband suffered significant burns, but escaped…
- #586 Jason Flom with Ronnie Miller · 39 min · Episode 586Ronald 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 Miller threatened to sue…
- #585 Jason Flom with Keith LaMar · 1 h 8 min · Episode 585On April 11, 1993, a riot broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH, primarily due to tensions between the prisoners and the guards. The riot went on…
- #584 Jason Flom with Tysheem Crocker · 53 min · Episode 584In 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 having a dispute…
- #583 Jason Flom with Carl Miller · 44 min · Episode 583On 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 perpetrator to authorities…
- #582 Guest Host Conor Hall with Brian Pippitt · 52 min · Episode 582Evelyn 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, she was found…
- #581 Jason Flom with Pierre Rushing · 42 min · Episode 581On 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 never met Mr. Taylor…
- #580 Jason Flom with Anthony Apanovitch · 41 min · Episode 580On 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 been sexually…
- #579 Jason Flom with Daniel Holtzclaw · 46 min · Episode 579At 2 AM, on June 18th, 2014, Daniel Holtzclaw finished up his shift as an Oklahoma City police officer and made his way home in his all black cruiser. He saw a car swerving and…
- #578 Jason Flom with Charles "Brandon" Martin · 41 min · Episode 578On October 27, 2008, Jodi Lynne Torok was at her Crofton, MD home talking on the phone with her close friend, Blair Wolfe, when a man, purporting to be a salesman, knocked on her…
- #577 Jason Flom with John Giuca · 1 h 0 min · Episode 577On October 12, 2003, Mark Fisher was found shot and killed in a driveway in Brooklyn, NY after spending the night hanging out with a group of his peers, including John Giuca and…
- #576 Jason Flom with Billie Allen · 56 min · Episode 576On 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 were fired and a…
- #575 Jason Flom with Larry DeLisle · 37 min · Episode 575After a hot summer day - August 3rd, 1989, the DeLisle’s took their 4 children for ice cream along the Detroit River. A mechanical defect in their car caused the night to take a…
- #574 Jason Flom with Alexis Ke'Erica Martin · 36 min · Episode 57415 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 Kerney was about to be killed…
- Introducing - Undisclosed: TJ Weekly - Jason Flom · 53 minIn this episode, Rabia and Colin chat with Jason Flom about his transition from leading roles in the music industry to becoming an advocate for criminal justice reform, wrongful…
- #573 Guest Host Tiffany Reese with Patrick Brown · 38 min · Episode 573On 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 concluded that the…
- #572 Guest Host Kemba Smith with Leon Benson · 44 min · Episode 572On 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 told them that he…
- #571 Guest Host Guest Host Ashley Fantz with Marvin Anderson · 39 min · Episode 571On July 17, 1982, in Hanover County, VA, a white woman was raped by a black man who was a total stranger. During the rape, the man beat her and threatened her with a gun, and…
- #570 Guest Host John Huffington with Elmer Daniels · 42 minOn 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 friend, "K.C.", said…
- #569 Jason Flom with Dusty Turner · 55 min · Episode 569On June 19th, 1995, Dusty Turner was out at a bar with some friends in Virginia Beach, VA, including his roommate and training partner, Billy Brown. Dusty Turner and Jennifer…
- #568 Maggie Freleng with Dusty Turner · 32 min · Episode 568On June 19th, 1995, Dusty Turner was out at a bar with some friends in Virginia Beach, VA, including his roommate and training partner, Billy Brown. Dusty Turner and Jennifer…
- #567 Maggie Freleng with Lance Alford · 30 min · Episode 567In the evening of May 22, 2005, Salvador A. Martinez was shot and killed in Camden, NJ. The notorious Camden Police Department eventually set its sights on Lance Alford, and…
- #566 Maggie Freleng with Josh Burns · 39 min · Episode 566On January 7, 2014, 37-year-old Brenda Burns gave birth to a baby girl, Naomi. Two months later, on March 15, 2014, Brenda was running errands, and Naomi was home with her…
- #565 Maggie Freleng with Jane Dorotik · 38 min · Episode 565On Sunday February 13, 2000, 53-year-old Jane Dorotik reported her husband Robert missing after he failed to return home from a jog in Valley Center, CA. An avid runner, Robert’s…
- #564 Maggie Freleng with Dr. Marvin Cotton Jr. · 42 min · Episode 564On January 24, 2001, 25-year-old Jamond McIntre was shot seven times and killed in Detroit, MI. Though there were no eyewitnesses to the shooting, three individuals, including…
- Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 5 - TRAILER · 2 minMaggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize winner, iHeartPodcast 2024 Social Impact Award Honoree and acclaimed host of Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, returns with compelling stories…
- #563 Jason Flom with Fred Clay · 58 min · Episode 563In 1979, 28-year-old cab driver Jeffrey S. Boyajian was robbed and murdered when he was shot in the head five times after he picked up three men in a Boston, MA neighborhood…
- #562 Jason Flom with Rafael Madrigal · 49 min · Episode 562On July 5, 2000, Ricardo Aguilera was shot and wounded in a gang related drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. Several witnesses identified 25-year-old Rafael Madrigal…
- #561 Jason Flom with Rodney Roberts · 53 min · Episode 561Rodney Roberts was arrested in 1996 in Newark, NJ, after an altercation with a friend. After several days in custody, he found himself charged with the kidnapping and rape of a…
- #560 Jason Flom with Vanessa Gathers · 50 min · Episode 560In 1998, Vanessa Gathers was wrongfully convicted of robbing and beating 71-year-old Michael Shaw to death. There was no physical evidence linking Vanessa to the crime, and her…
- #559 Jason Flom with Ryan Ferguson · 52 min · Episode 559Ryan Ferguson was a 17-year-old high school student when Kent Heitholt, a sportswriter for the Columbia Daily Tribune, was found beaten and strangled in Missouri. Heitholt's…
- #558 Jason Flom with Antoine Day · 51 min · Episode 558On September 1, 1990, Thomas Peters and James Coleman were shot while shooting craps outside a liquor store on the west side of Chicago, IL at about 1:30 am. The men were taken…
- #557 Jason Flom with Dennis Maher · 55 min · Episode 557On November 16, 1983, a 28-year-old woman was attacked and sexually assaulted by an unknown male as she was walking home from work in Lowell, MA. The following evening, a…
- #556 Jason Flom with Franky Carrillo · 42 min · Episode 556On January 18, 1991, six teenage boys were standing on a curb talking in front of a house in the Los Angeles, CA suburb of Lynwood. Donald Sarpy, the father of one of the boys…
- #555 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Frank Gable · 42 min · Episode 555Early on the morning of January 18, 1989, a security guard found the body of Michael Francke lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the North Portico of the Dome Building of…
- #554 Lauren Bright Pacheco with Pablo Velez · 38 min · Episode 554In the early morning hours of July 14, 2004, 19 year-old Adrian Payan and 18 year-old Emerson Bojorquez were ambushed at a nightclub in Houston, TX. A man named Jason Wooley…
