Podcast Episodes

Wrongful Conviction 2024 - Trailer

Lava for Good’s critically acclaimed Wrongful Conviction podcast, co-hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, and Pulitzer …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

#415 Maggie Freleng with Faye Jacobs

Episode 415

February 9, 1992 started as a normal day for 16 year old Faye Jacobs – she attended church and hung out with friends in Little Rock, AR. When she and her mom drove home later, they passed bustling po…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

#414 Guest Host John Huffington with Elmer Daniels

Episode 414

On 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 they were together on …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

#413 Jason Flom with Rickey Jackson

Episode 413

On May 19th, 1975, in front of a store in Cleveland, OH, two assailants robbed a man, splashed acid in his face, shot and killed him, and then fired into the store injuring the co-owner. 12 year-old …

Published on 2 years ago

#412 Jason Flom with Douglas DiLosa

Episode 412

In September 1986, 34-year-old Douglas DiLosa was found bound with rope in his Jefferson Parish, LA home. His wife was found strangled upstairs. DiLosa, who is white, told police that he was awakened…

Published on 2 years ago

#411 Jason Flom with John Jerome White

Episode 411

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 sexually assaulted the woman and then demanded …

Published on 2 years ago

#410 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Shaken Baby Syndrome

Episode 410

Kate Judson, Executive Director of the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences, updates Josh Dubin's exploration of Shaken Baby Syndrome on Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science. 

Shaken Baby Syndrome …

Published on 2 years ago

#409 Jason Flom with Terry Ceasor

Episode 409

On October 3, 2004, in Port Huron, MI, Terry Ceasor was at home alone with his girlfriend Cheryl’s 1 year old son, Brenden. Terry and Brenden had been playing a game that consisted of Terry chasing B…

Published on 2 years ago

#408 Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science - Eyewitness Testimony

Episode 408

Josh Dubin discusses Eyewitness Testimony with renowned psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine. She studies human memory, specifically the malleability of …

Published on 2 years ago

#407 Jason Flom with Jerome Dixon

Episode 407

Just after midnight on July 25, 1990, a man was shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Oakland, CA. Shortly after the shooting, police picked up 17-year-old Jerome Dixon, who h…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago