True Crime False Memory

Joe was a 14-year old honors student who had never been in trouble with the law. In this episode, we examine how this short skinny bookworm happened to resemble the sketch of a rapist that was posted ...

13 Nov 201925min

Two men walk into a crowded barbershop, murder one of the employees in cold blood and flee, leaving a room full of stunned witnesses trying to make sense of what just occurred. Tanika, the owner of th...

29 Okt 201946min

Nineteen year old Mark was riding his bike him from the community college library on a sunny afternoon when he was stopped by police because he matched some elements of a description provided by two e...

14 Okt 201930min

A Gun shot, Murder and Police interrogations. Johnny was the sole eyewitness to his friend’s murder. He desperately wanted to help the police prosecute the killer, but he had no memory for ever seein...

30 Sep 201951min

An armed robbery in a Bodega in Los Angeles leads the police and witnesses to search the area for the culprit. Learn how this search took an odd turn as one of the witnesses decided she ‘found the guy...

16 Sep 201949min

This is the story Luige, an elderly tailor and Leon, an African American young man who worked nearby in a local coffee shop. One day while working in his shop, an armed gunman came into his store, ro...

2 Sep 201942min

A man steps into the intersection of a busy street and shoots several times into a public bus, hitting the driver. Carlos Cruz lived in the area, and his life was turned upside down when he was false...

21 Aug 201946min

True crime stories of innocent people who were mistakenly identified, and put on trial for crime they didn’t commit. How the waxy nature of eyewitness memory presents major challenges for the criminal...

13 Aug 20192min