Podcast Episodes

#117 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Dixmoor 5

Episode 117

So their theory is that a wandering necrophiliac comes across the body and defiles it?

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell the story of how five Chicago teens were wrongly convicted of the rape and m…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

#116 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Robert Davis

Episode 116

What can I say I did to get me out of this?

Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin use real interrogation audio to tell the shocking story of Robert Davis, a Virginia teenager who in 2003 falsely confessed t…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

#115 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Origin Story

Episode 115

Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn’t commit?

Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and central figures in the smash…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

#114 Jason Flom with Julie Rea

Episode 114

On October 13th, 1997, Julie Rea’s nightmare would begin, when an intruder broke into her home, killed her son Joel, and the authorities would begin a bumbling, tunnel vision investigation to pin the…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

#113 Jason Flom with Herman Atkins

Episode 113

Herman Atkins was a disciplined student athlete who enjoyed refurbishing old cars, growing up in the rigid household of a California highway patrolman. On January 25th, 1986, Herman Atkins was paying…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

#112 Jason Flom with John Restivo

Episode 112

On December 5th, 1984, the naked body of Theresa Fusco was pulled out of a wooded area in Lynbrook, NY - the 3rd in a string of recent disappearances, putting pressure on police to find the monster a…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

#111 Jason Flom with Stefon Morant

Episode 111

In the late 80’s and early 90’s, Stefon Morant and Scott Lewis were selling drugs for organized crime figure Frank Parise. When Frank was set to go away on a weapon’s charge, he asked Scott to take o…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

#110 Jason Flom with Patrick Pursley (Live from ComplexCon Chicago 2019)

Episode 110

On April 2nd, 1993, 22 year old Andrew Ascher and Becky George sat in his parked car by her brother’s apartment building on Silent Road in Rockford, IL, when a black man in a blue ski mask approached…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

#109 Jason Flom with Perry Lott

Episode 109

At 1:15 AM on November 2nd, 1987, an Ada, Oklahoma woman felt a gun at the back of her head as she unlocked her door. She was robbed, burglarized, and raped by an otherwise nondescript black assailan…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

#108 Jason Flom with Clemente Aguirre

Episode 108

Coming of age in Honduras, Clemente “Shorty” Aguirre was faced with a choice: join MS13 or die. He moved to Nicaragua with his grandmother instead, but with no economic prospects, he chose to come to…

Published on 6 years ago