Kate Casey: Martha Moxley
The 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley made national headlines because of its brutality, but also because the main suspect was a cousin of the Kennedys. Michael Skakel was tried, convicted and t...
3 Aug 58min
Justine van der Leun: Unreasonable Women
My next guest has done something extraordinary: she traveled across America collecting stories of criminalized survival. Shocked to find how many women were convicted for protecting themselves against...
27 Juli 51min
Eva Benefield: Ghost Girl
If you followed the so-called Black Swan murder case, you probably saw a teenage girl, trying to get justice for her father. In 2020, Ashley Benefield shot and killed her estranged husband, Doug, in F...
20 Juli 1h
Emily Winslow: Jane Doe January
Author Emily Winslow is a fabulous crime novelist and she’s also a sexual assault survivor. In 1992, she was a young drama student at an elite conservatory in Pittsburgh. One January night, she was b...
13 Juli 53min
Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil
Journalist Pam Colloff is one of my favorite people. She’s an outstanding criminal justice reporter who is now publishing her first book. And it’s a doozy. It’s about a serial criminal, a so-called i...
6 Juli 1h 5min
Michelle Pitcher: Riding Shotgun
A man was convicted of capital murder in Texas in 1999 and much of the case depends on eyewitness testimony. But there’s a twist: one of the witnesses was hypnotized. Should Charles Flores still be on...
22 Juni 1h 1min
Axton Betz-Hamilton: The Less People Know About Us
Millions of us have had our identities stolen—the thief can be a stranger, or someone very close to you. Author Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in fear in rural Indiana because her family was being target...
15 Juni 58min
