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#376 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Norfolk 4

Episode 376

Four honorable men volunteered to fight for their country, but ended up fighting for their own freedom.

Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at Northwestern University’s Center on Wrong…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#375 Guest Hosts Clayton English and Greg Glod with Louie Garcia

Episode 375

On August 10, 2017, police executed a search warrant at a home in San Antonio, TX and found nearly three pounds of methamphetamine hidden in a bathroom. Upon this discovery, police arrested 45-year-o…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#374 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Henry McCollum and Leon Brown

Episode 374

I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us inside a decades-long fight for the truth. The story of Henry McCollum and Leon Brown is living proof tha…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#373 Jason Flom with Elwood Jones

Episode 373

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 h…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#372 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Teina Pora

Episode 372

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 confesse…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#371 Guest Host Earlonne Woods with Joaquin Ciria

Episode 371

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 …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#370 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tyra Patterson

Episode 370

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 in…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#369 Jason Flom with Kwame Ajamu

Episode 369

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 i…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#368 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Birmingham Six

Episode 368

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 inno…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

#367 Guest Host Lauren Bright Pacheco with Sidney Holmes

Episode 367

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 u…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago