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Not Guilty
What defines guilt? Should we judge the accused based on the evidence found against them? Or by the decision made about them by a jury of their peers? Each week we look at complicated criminal cases, where the evidence and the verdict don’t always line up, testing the limits of “innocent until prove...
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Crossover Week: Crimes of Passion (Lorena Bobbitt Pt. 3)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Not Guilty, check out this episode from our series Crimes of Passion: Just because John and Lorena Bobbitt were...
Crossover Week: Crimes of Passion (Lorena Bobbitt Pt. 2)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Not Guilty, check out this episode from our series Crimes of Passion: After the now-infamous maiming on June 23r...
Crossover Week: Crimes of Passion (Lorena Bobbitt Pt. 1)
If you enjoy the true stories told in Not Guilty, check out this episode from our series Crimes of Passion: Lorena Bobbitt thought she'd found her pie...
O.J. Simpson Pt. 2
For eight months, lawyers argued the case against O.J. Simpson. Prosecutors laid out a narrative of domestic violence and showed DNA evidence. The def...
O.J. Simpson Pt. 1
On the evening of June 12th, 1994, the body of Nicole Brown Simpson was found on the steps outside her condominium, in a pool of her own blood. The co...
Best of 2019: The Boorn Brothers Pt. 2
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: In October of 1819, the two Boorn brothers, 27-year-old Jesse and 31-year-old Stephen, s...
Best of 2019: The Boorn Brothers Pt. 1
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: Jesse and Stephen Boorn never liked their sister’s husband, Russell Colvin. They would b...
Best of 2019: “The Scopes Monkey Trial” Pt. 2
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: In July of 1925, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow finally faced off in Judge R...
Best of 2019: “The Scopes Monkey Trial” Pt. 1
Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: The state of Tennessee saw the Theory of Evolution as a direct assault on Christian valu...
Released: The Tulia Convictions Pt. 2
In the summer of 2000, Kareem White stood trial for drug charges that he insisted were false. Over 30 other defendants had been convicted ahead of him...
Released: The Tulia Convictions Pt. 1
In 1999, the town of Tulia, Texas was rocked by the racially motivated arrests of 46 people—39 of them African American. This resulted in 38 convictio...
Insanity: John Hinckley Jr. Pt. 2
Following the 1981 attempted assassination of President, Ronald Regan, FBI agents interviewed John Hinckley, Jr. and were certain they had an open and...
Insanity: John Hinckley Jr. Pt. 1
Driven by an obsessive fixation, John Hinckley Jr. would ultimately cause one of the most shocking events in recent American history: the 1981 attempt...
Pardoned: Richard Nixon Pt. 2
On May 17, 1973, the Senate Select Committee began its hearings of several key witnesses in the Watergate break-in. What they would uncover would shoc...
Pardoned: Richard Nixon Pt. 1
In 1972, a break-in at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. had the FBI investigating what they thought was an ordinary burglary. But when...
Exonerated: Claus von Bülow Pt. 2
After his wife Sunny von Bülow fell into a mysterious coma in 1980, Claus von Bülow was charged with her attempted murder. A high-profile trial would...
Exonerated: Claus von Bülow Pt. 1
Sunny von Bülow collapsed in her Rhode Island home in December of 1980—inexplicably falling into a coma, ultimately never to recover. An investigation...
Exonerated: Lynn DeJac Peters Pt. 2
Buffalo, NY: After being arrested for the murder of her thirteen-year-old daughter in 1993, we follow Lynn Peters’ criminal proceedings, and also exam...
Exonerated: Lynn DeJac Peters Pt. 1
In 1993, Lynn DeJac Peters found her 13 year old daughter naked and dead. A year later, Peters found herself convicted of her daughter’s murder.
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Charles Chilton Moore Pt. 2: “American Atheist”
By 1895, a middle-aged Charles Chilton Moore had been arrested three times due to libel, blasphemy, and the mailing of "obscene materials". But Moore...
Charles Chilton Moore Pt. 1: "The Blue Grass Blade"
In Reconstruction era Kentucky, Charles Chilton Moore was a minister-turned-atheist whose criticisms of religion would set him on a path to become a f...
Steven Steinberg Pt. 2: Sleepwalker
When Steven Steinberg went on trial in 1981 for the murder of his wife, Elana, his defense team used an unorthodox strategy; a gambit known as the “Ma...
Steven Steinberg Pt. 1: The Murder of Elana Steinberg
In May of 1981, housewife Elana Steinberg was brutally stabbed to death; a pair of home invaders attacked her, using a knife from her own kitchen. Her...
Boorn Brothers Pt. 2: Ghost Evidence
In October of 1819, the two Boorn brothers, 27-year-old Jesse and 31-year-old Stephen, stood trial for the murder of their brother-in-law, Russell Col...
Boorn Brothers Pt. 1: The Disappearance of Russell Colvin
Jesse and Stephen Boorn never liked their sister’s husband, Russell Colvin. It stood to reason that when he disappeared from their small town in Vermo...
The Scopes Monkey Trial Pt. 2: Trial Of The Century
In July of 1925, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow finally faced off in Judge Raulston's courtroom in Dayton, Tennessee. The future of Americ...
The Scopes Monkey Trial Pt. 1: Majority Rule
When Darwin published On Human Evolution, theists around the world had to grapple with their faith and this new scientific knowledge. The state of Ten...
The Chicago Eight Pt. 2: The Walker Report
After the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention devolved into riots, the country demanded answers. Who was responsible for the rampant v...
The Chicago Eight Pt. 1: Trouble at the National Convention
The Democratic National Convention was hotly contested in 1968. On the streets of Chicago, liberal protesters turned out in droves. Much to the dismay...
Michael Skakel Pt. 2: Little Brother
In 1975, 17-year-old Tommy Skakel was the primary suspect in the Martha Moxley murder case. But when new evidence came to light twenty years later, it...
Michael Skakel Pt. 1: The Murder of Martha Moxley
On October 30th, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered less than a 100 yards from her front door. The police felt certain of the identity of he...
Bernard Baran Pt. 2: “Free Baran”
In 1985, Bernie Baran stood trial for the alleged assault of six preschool children. The jury listened in shock and horror as the children, ages 3-6,...
Bernard Baran Pt. 1: From the Mouths of Babes
In the wake of the 1983 McMartin Preschool scandal, accusations of child sexual abuse at daycare centers starting popping up all over America. For one...
Kristine Bunch Pt. 2: Ring of Fire
In February of 1996, 21-year-old Kristine Bunch stood trial for the arson of her Indiana trailer home and the murder of her three-year-old son. In the...
Kristine Bunch Pt. 1: Accident or Arson?
In July of 1995, 21-year-old Kristine Bunch woke up up in the middle of the night to her house on fire. As fire investigators picked through the rubbl...
Ernesto Arturo Miranda Pt. 2: The Right to Remain Silent
When Ernesto Arturo Miranda's defense attorney decided to appeal his conviction in 1965, he had no idea the case would make its was all the way to the...
Ernesto Arturo Miranda Pt. 1: The Loophole
In March of 1963, an 18-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on her way home from work in Phoenix, Arizona. The investigation and trial that followed...
The Central Park Five Pt. 2: The Sixth Man
In the summer of 1990, The Central Park Five went on trial for the brutal attack on 28-year-old Trisha Meili. But as the evidence against the boys gre...
The Central Park Five Pt. 1: “Wilding”
On April 19th, 1989, 28-year-old Trisha Meili was brutally attacked while jogging in Central Park. In less than 48-hours, five teenagers between the a...
Cynthia Payne Pt. 2: Defining Decency
During her trial in 1980, none of Cynthia Payne's male clients faced any charges. The public wondered who the real transgressor was and whether she de...