23 episodes
Bear Brook NHPR
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- True Crime
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4.8 • 721 Ratings
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Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. The only evidence against him? His own taped confession. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth – and who gets to tell it?
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Episode 1: Extraordinary
Sharon Johnson’s family and friends have spent the last 35 years coping with her brutal murder. But what if that story was based on a lie?
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Episode 2: The Pursuit
We begin with the story police told about Sharon Johnson’s murder.
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Episode 3: The Breaking Point
Police interrogate a second teenager named Jason Carroll – with help from Jason’s own mother.
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Episode 4: ‘Promises Have Been Made’
One set of confessions leads to another and three men are arrested for Sharon Johnson’s murder.
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Episode 5: Trial in a Trial
A new true crime story is told and when juries hear it, it leads to different results for all three defendants.
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Episode 6: ‘Don’t Roll the Dice’
Jason Carroll stands trial twice – and the juries come up with their own versions of what happened.
Customer Reviews
Simply the best!
This podcast is simply the best! Absolutely amazingly well made and such raw emotions were expressed! Well done to all involved, I look forward to more updates as time moves on!
Boring
Season 1 is great. S2 is boring, contrived and nothing actually happens.
Most boring podcast ever
Season 2. Sounded very interesting but was told with WAY too many long pauses, followed with ridiculous, too loud synth music and too many repeats of the same story lines. An 8 hourish podcast with not even an interesting case to start with… once we finally heard the whole murder case. Even the false confession bit was extremely too long and way too boring. We couldn’t even finish that episode by then, and I wanted to scream and desperately claw back the 7ish hours I’d already wasted waiting for something interesting to happen. Basically-young men with undeveloped brains will confess to murder. So women have come to the rescue. There. Saved you 8 hours.