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- 1 weeks ago42 min
EP310: Forty-Five Years (Pt. 2)
For more than forty-five years, Richard Phillips lived under a sentence that told him he would die in prison. Outside, his children grew up, Detroit changed, and the man whose testimony had helped convict him of murder died without ever facing charges for the killing. Phillips kept insisting that he was innocent, but insistence could not overcome a jury’s verdict. His appeals brought brief openings, then reversals and more years behind bars. When he finally walked out at seventy-one, the question was no longer simply whether an innocent man had been imprisoned. It was how a story with contradictions at its center had survived for nearly half a century—and why evidence that could expose those contradictions had taken so long to matter. Behind Phillips’s conviction lay the murder of twenty-one-year-old Gregory Harris, a witness with his own reasons to talk, and a truth the justice system would spend decades failing to uncover.SOURCES: 1) Wayne County Prosecutor, “Prosecutor Kym Worthy Dismisses Homicide Charges Against Richard Phillips,” March 28, 20182) National Registry of Exonerations, murder case3) National Registry of Exonerations, robbery case4) University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, murder case5) University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, robbery case6) Michigan NPR: After 45 years behind bars for murder, Richard Phillips is finally, officially exonerated7) Michigan NPR: Longest-serving exoneree in US history “just glad to be free” after 47 years in prison8) Michigan Department of Attorney General: Michigan AG Nessel Approves $2,320,000 in Compensation Awards to Wrongfully Convicted Men9) FOX 2 Detroit, Phillips's art exhibition and interview
- 3 weeks ago45 min
EP309: Forty-Five Years Pt. 1
For more than forty-five years, Richard Phillips lived under a sentence that told him he would die in prison. Outside, his children grew up, Detroit changed, and the man whose testimony had helped convict him of murder died without ever facing charges for the killing. Phillips kept insisting that he was innocent, but insistence could not overcome a jury’s verdict. His appeals brought brief openings, then reversals and more years behind bars. When he finally walked out at seventy-one, the question was no longer simply whether an innocent man had been imprisoned. It was how a story with contradictions at its center had survived for nearly half a century—and why evidence that could expose those contradictions had taken so long to matter. Behind Phillips’s conviction lay the murder of twenty-one-year-old Gregory Harris, a witness with his own reasons to talk, and a truth the justice system would spend decades failing to uncover.
- Sep 23, 202641 min
EP308: She Tried To Tell Them
In the fall of 2019, Tiffany Hill was trying to build a safer life for herself and her three children in Vancouver, Washington. The thirty-five-year-old former Marine had spent years learning how to remain composed under pressure, but the danger she now faced was not something she could leave behind on a battlefield. It followed her into restaurants, appeared on her phone, shadowed her daily routines, and eventually became the subject of police reports, court hearings, and increasingly urgent pleas for protection. Tiffany knew the man she feared better than any detective, prosecutor, or judge ever could, and as the weeks passed, she became convinced that his behavior was escalating. She did what people in danger are told to do: she documented it, reported it, sought protection, and repeatedly asked authorities to listen. By November, the question was no longer whether Tiffany was frightened. The question was whether anyone could keep enough distance between her and the person she feared before that distance disappeared altogether.
- Sep 14, 202639 min
EP307: The Casanova Killer Paul John Knowles - part 2
In 1974, Paul John Knowles embarked on a violent, cross-country crime spree that would leave a trail of murder from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. Charming, handsome, and dangerously unpredictable, Knowles used his easy confidence to gain trust; earning him the chilling nickname “The Casanova Killer.” In this episode of Crimes & Consequences, we follow Knowles from his troubled beginnings and repeated escapes from custody through the months of violence that made him one of the most notorious American serial killers of the 1970s. We examine the victims, the crimes investigators could confirm, the murders Knowles claimed as his own, and the dramatic manhunt that finally brought his killing spree to an end.
- Sep 10, 202636 min
EP306: The Casanova Killer - Paul John Knowles
In 1974, Paul John Knowles embarked on a violent, cross-country crime spree that would leave a trail of murder from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. Charming, handsome, and dangerously unpredictable, Knowles used his easy confidence to gain trust; earning him the chilling nickname “The Casanova Killer.” In this episode of Crimes & Consequences, we follow Knowles from his troubled beginnings and repeated escapes from custody through the months of violence that made him one of the most notorious American serial killers of the 1970s. We examine the victims, the crimes investigators could confirm, the murders Knowles claimed as his own, and the dramatic manhunt that finally brought his killing spree to an end.
- Aug 18, 202649 min
EP305: The Girl in the Television Box
In the summer of 1988, Philadelphia was shaken by the murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, a little girl whose disappearance would become one of the city's most haunting mysteries. For years, detectives searched for the person responsible, following leads through the streets of Kensington and questioning countless people who might have known something about what happened that July afternoon. Nearly six years later, their investigation led them to Walter Ogrod, a quiet Philadelphia man whose name would become permanently intertwined with Barbara's death. What followed was a case filled with disturbing evidence, a controversial confession, competing versions of what happened, and a courtroom battle that would stretch across decades. At its center was a question that seemed, at first, to have a simple answer—but would prove anything but simple: What really happened to Barbara Jean Horn?SOURCES: 1) Supreme Court of PA decisions2) U.S. Supreme Court decisions3) Commonwealth of PA District Attorney's Office Documents4) NBC10 Philadelphia, "Who Killed Barbara Jean?"5) Philadelphia Inquirer Articles6) "The Trials of Walter Ogrod" by Thomas Lowenstein
- Aug 4, 202643 min
EP304: The Last Christmas at the Lawson Farm
On a cold December morning in 1929, the Lawson family gathered on their farm outside Germanton, North Carolina, surrounded by the familiar rhythms of rural life. Christmas had arrived with the promise of family, faith, and a brief respite from the hardships of farm work. Only weeks earlier, Charlie Lawson had done something few families in the area could afford—he purchased new clothes, bought Christmas gifts, and arranged for a professional family portrait. It was a picture that captured an ordinary American family at what appeared to be the happiest moment of their lives. Within hours on Christmas Day, however, that photograph would become one of the most haunting images in American history, and the quiet Lawson farm would become the center of a mystery that has endured for nearly a century.*correction: James is identified as being 16 years old, when he was really only 4. Apologies for the error.SOURCES: 1) Website of author, Trudy J. Smith2) "The Meaning of Our Tears" by Trudy J. Smith 3) "White Christmas, Bloody Christmas" by Trudy J. Smith and M. Bruce Jones
- Jul 29, 20261h 9m
EP303: Doctor Death Christopher Duntsch
Christopher Duntsch was once hailed as a brilliant young neurosurgeon with a promising future, but behind his impressive credentials was a physician who left a trail of death and devastation. In just two years, more than 30 patients were killed, paralyzed, or permanently maimed during routine spinal surgeries while hospitals repeatedly allowed him to continue operating despite mounting warnings. In this episode of Crimes & Consequences, we examine the shocking true story behind "Doctor Death," exploring the catastrophic surgeries, the survivors whose lives were forever changed, the courageous doctors who exposed him, and the unprecedented criminal prosecution that ultimately sent Duntsch to prison for life—revealing one of the greatest failures of medical oversight in modern American history.
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