Joseph was a 19-year old kid in New Orleans who was walking down the street with his friends, when a local police officer decided that he matched the description of someone who had committed an armed robbery the previous day. The officer decide

Taco Truck Robberies

Apr 13th, 2020 37m 36s

Danny was a tough kid from a local tagging crew, but he was no gunman. One day his life was turned completely upside down when he was accused of robbing seven taco stands at gunpoint. Learn how the police used faulty identification procedures

I Remember Him from High school

Mar 11th, 2020 27m 55s

Imagine walking down the street minding your own business when the police stop you, say you match the description of someone who just committed a serious crime, put you in handcuffs, and present you to a witness in the field. Before you could

Overexposed in San Diego

Feb 18th, 2020 38m 23s

A small town police officer in the San Diego area believes Michael committed a series of crimes and uses highly suggestive procedures in an attempt to obtain identifications from several eyewitnesses. Michael spends months in jail awaiting tri

Pizzaman Robbery

Jan 28th, 2020 41m 9s

A pizza is ordered to be delivered to a vacant apartment in a tough neighborhood, and when the 19-year old deliveryman walks up to the apartment complex he is rushed by two hooded gunmen who demand his money, food and phone. The apartment man

Gang Killing in Santa Ana

Jan 7th, 2020 46m 23s

Two young gang bangers ride up to a couple of teens ask where they’re from, and when they don’t get the right answer they pull out guns and start shooting. One teen is killed and the other gets away. Johnny Sanchez is a 14-year old kid who liv

Purse Snatch 9-Pack

Dec 16th, 2019 57m 12s

Two muggers assault an older woman and drag her down the street as she desperately holds onto her purse. The witness describes the main culprit as having long hair and no- tattoos, but after participating in a highly suggestive identification t

Drive by Bicycle Thief

Dec 2nd, 2019 45m 54s

A hooded gunman on a bicycle rides up to Pedro and Alma, pulls out a silver automatic handgun, and demands their money. The next day, Pedro went out searching for the gunman and found Ronny; a 13-year old African-American boy with a hooded swe

Attempted Rape in Sacramento

Nov 13th, 2019 25m 49s

Joe was a 14-year old honors student who had never been in trouble with the law. In this episode, we examine how this short skinny bookworm happened to resemble the sketch of a rapist that was posted around his school and came to be misidentifi

Murder at the Barbershop

Oct 29th, 2019 46m 41s

Two men walk into a crowded barbershop, murder one of the employees in cold blood and flee, leaving a room full of stunned witnesses trying to make sense of what just occurred. Tanika, the owner of the shop, is traumatized by the horrific incid

The Orange County Flasher

Oct 14th, 2019 30m

Nineteen year old Mark was riding his bike him from the community college library on a sunny afternoon when he was stopped by police because he matched some elements of a description provided by two eyewitnesses of a man who was exposing himsel

The Phantom Bullet

Sep 30th, 2019 51m 14s

A Gun shot, Murder and Police interrogations. Johnny was the sole eyewitness to his friend’s murder. He desperately wanted to help the police prosecute the killer, but he had no memory for ever seeing the culprit pull out the gun or shoot. Ove

"I found the guy"

Sep 16th, 2019 49m 10s

An armed robbery in a Bodega in Los Angeles leads the police and witnesses to search the area for the culprit. Learn how this search took an odd turn as one of the witnesses decided she ‘found the guy’, setting in motion a series of events that

The Tailor and the Smart Phone

Sep 2nd, 2019 42m

This is the story Luige, an elderly tailor and Leon, an African American young man who worked nearby in a local coffee shop. One day while working in his shop, an armed gunman came into his store, robbed him and brutally beat him in the proces

The Sunday Shooter

Aug 21st, 2019 46m 14s

A man steps into the intersection of a busy street and shoots several times into a public bus, hitting the driver. Carlos Cruz lived in the area, and his life was turned upside down when he was falsely identified by an eyewitness as being the

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Introducing True Crime False Memory

Aug 13th, 2019 2m 18s

True crime stories of innocent people who were mistakenly identified, and put on trial for crime they didn’t commit. How the waxy nature of eyewitness memory presents major challenges for the criminal justice system. Subscribe to True Crime Fal

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