#373 Jason Flom with Elwood Jones
On September 3, 1994, Rhoda Nathan was murdered in Room 237 of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Blue Ash, OH. Police focused on hotel employee Elwood Jones as a suspect after they saw an infected cut on hi...
6 Jul 202347min
#372 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Teina Pora
Have you heard about New Zealand's Brendan Dassey? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us across the globe to New Zealand with a story that hits way too close to home: a sixteen-year-old boy confessed...
3 Jul 202330min
#371 Guest Host Earlonne Woods with Joaquin Ciria
On March 24, 1990, Felix “Carlos” Bastarrica was shot and killed on the street in San Francisco, CA. Following the shooting, Candido “Peter” Diaz, started rumors that one of Felix’s friends, Joaquin C...
29 Jun 202342min
#370 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tyra Patterson
The prisons are filled with people convicted of murder who never killed anyone. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Dayton, Ohio where a young woman’s false confession to robbery gets turned int...
26 Jun 202329min
#369 Jason Flom with Kwame Ajamu
On May 19, 1975, Harold Franks was confronted by two men as he left a grocery store in Cleveland, OH. The men demanded Franks’ briefcase and, when he resisted, hit him with a pipe and splashed acid in...
22 Jun 202338min
#368 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Birmingham Six
The thing about torture is that it works, at least if your only goal is to find a scapegoat. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us to Birmingham, England. In 1972, two pubs were bombed, and six innoc...
19 Jun 202333min
#367 Guest Host Lauren Bright Pacheco with Sidney Holmes
On June 19, 1988, 20-year-old Vincent Wright and 17-year-old Anissia Johnson were robbed at gunpoint by two men outside of a convenience store in Fort Lauderdale, FL. A third perpetrator also drove up...
15 Jun 202339min
#366 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Ricky Davis
One woman was forced to talk. The other was forced to listen. Both were powerless. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us about a California man named Ricky Davis. In 1985, Ricky and his girlfriend, C...
12 Jun 202333min
