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Host Ava Grey dissects the machinery of criminal conviction, examining how forensic science, hidden cognitive biases, and legal procedures determine guilt in America's courts. Each episode explores a different dimension—from DNA evidence and wrongful convictions to sentencing and the ripple effects of verdicts that reshape lives. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

An Australian True Crime investigation of wrongful imprisonment by the bestselling author of The Kingpin and the Crooked Cop. Nine wrongful imprisonments. Nine innocent men and women freed. Australia has a robust legal system. According to conventional wisdom, only the guilty end up behind bars...

Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage.

The powerful story of a falsely imprisoned man and a sweeping indictment of a city and the criminal justice system by a Pulitzer–prize winning journalist. When the bodies of two Black men were found sitting with a crackpipe in a parked car in a rundown section of town in 1994, it seemed just...

"In that moment I knew the meaning of milk-blood. Desperate addicts will decant some of their own blood while the drug is still pumping through their veins to save as 'insurance' to inject later." Adrian Simon, 38, is the son of Warren Fellows, the infamous heroin smuggler who was imprisoned in Bangkwang Prison in Bangkok for 12 years and published the best-selling memoir The Damage Done. But Warren wasn't the only one affected by the experience.

THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF AUSTRALIA'S MOST CORRUPT COP Roger Rogerson was a serial killer with a badge. Australia's most notorious corrupt cop was serving a life sentence for murdering student Jamie Gao in cold blood over 2.78 kg of ice, when he was found unresponsive in his cell. The man they...

Behind every criminal man is a young, glamorous woman profiting from his crimes. Or, at least, so the media suggests. Felicia Djamirze is a counsellor, an advocate for women's justice, a three-time Miss Australia winner and a convicted drug dealer. Growing up surrounded by drug abuse and crime...

The Wrongfully Convicted series consists of stories that highlight the justice system failing many due to prejudice, racism, false confessions and more. In this series, we discuss the many people who have been arrested, tried and sentenced but have done nothing wrong and were later exonerated in the court of law!

Each year, millions of Americans travel abroad and more than 3,000 are imprisoned every year. Many of them are wrongfully convicted, and many of them are told they will never go home again. From Focus Features and L.A. Times Studios comes the brand-new podcast series, CONVICTED: ACROSS BORDERS. Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, we’ll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials. Through these stories we’ll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands, how to navigate different legal ...

This audiobook tells 7 horrific true crime stories of parricide, the killing of one's parent(s). In this thought provoking, thrilling true crime piece, you will get an insight and understanding of this topic that most people will never receive or thankfully, never experience.

The malicious intent to harm others for self gratifying purposes will have most criminals in prison for the rest of their natural born lives. Others are not as lucky, We will take a look at those offenders who have been sentenced to death for harming innocent bystanders for their own personal gains. These are the stories of the most heinous felons that have been on Death Row, and how they became Convicted To Death.

Are criminals who have been convicted of murder really being released back into society to live among us? Released to Kill Again is the 4th volume in the True Crime Series by John Summit. In this audiobook, he reveals the shocking true crime and murder stories of 7 convicted criminals who not only killed once, but were paroled...only to kill again.

“A riveting and infuriating examination of criminal prosecutions, revealing how easy it is to convict the wrong person and how nearly impossible it is to undo the error.” —Washington Post "No one has illuminated this problem more thoughtfully and persistently." —Bryan Stevenson...

In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent. William Marvin Lindley had been convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl along the banks of the Yuba River, and was awaiting execution at San Quentin. After reviewing the case, Gardner agreed to help - it seemed the fate of the "Red-Headed Killer" hinged on the testimony of a colorblind witness.

In 1875, an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiry. But in this case, Baltimore’s White community chose a different path. A coroner’s jury declined to attribute the killing to accident or self-defense, the state’s attorney indicted McDonald and brought him to trial, and a jury convicted McDonald.

Created by 9th grade students at Benjamin Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology @ Campus Magnet, this podcast series explores the real-life stories of people who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated. Through research, reflection, and storytelling, students break down each case—from who these individuals were before their arrests to what went wrong in the justice system. Told in their own voices, each episode challenges us to think critically about fairness, truth, and who gets heard. These aren’t just stories from the past—these are lessons for today. This ...

Jealousy is a natural human emotion. It is, however, when emotions run high that all rational thinking is lost and situations among friends and acquaintances can become a chain reaction of out of control decisions that ultimately lead to the death of innocent people. This audiobook profiles the true criminal cases of 7 friends who killed and were convicted of murder. What could possibly drive a friend to kill another friend?

Welcome to Night Time in Prison: Bedtime Stories by a Convicted MurdererThis is the podcast where convicted murderer Randall Via takes you on a journey into the raw and gritty realities of life behind bars. Serving two life sentences without parole, Randall has spent over 30 years in prison, including 20 years in solitary confinement. To survive the isolation, he created vivid fantasy worlds and collected some of the most unbelievable stories from his time in prison.Each episode dives into shocking prison drama—wild, unbelievable tales of survival and the inner workings of the prison system....