Crimes and Consequences

Crimes and Consequences
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Listen to the gripping details of the world's most brutal murders presented to you by two attorneys who rely on their sarcasm and wit to plow through the horrors of the crimes. Court and police records are heavily relied on to ensure the accuracy of each episode. Listen to Crimes and Consequences for your weekly dose of hardcore true crime.

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  1. 5d ago

    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, 2018 2) National Registry of Exonerations, murder case 3) National Registry of Exonerations, robbery case 4) University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, murder case 5) University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, robbery case 6) Michigan NPR: After 45 years behind bars for murder, Richard Phillips is finally, officially exonerated 7) Michigan NPR: Longest-serving exoneree in US history “just glad to be free” after 47 years in prison 8) Michigan Department of Attorney General: Michigan AG Nessel Approves $2,320,000 in Compensation Awards to Wrongfully Convicted Men 9) FOX 2 Detroit, Phillips's art exhibition and interview

    EP310: Forty-Five Years (Pt. 2)

  2. Oct 24 · Subscribers Only

    Members Only: The Space Between Two Glances

    Near ten o’clock on December 3, 1989, a Christmas party in Lorton, Virginia, was winding down. Tammy Brannen was collecting her coat and saying goodbye when her five-year-old daughter, Melissa, asked to take some potato chips home. Tammy gave her permission and watched the little girl in the blue Big Bird sweater cross the room. Melissa gathered her chips and started back; mother and daughter exchanged a smile. Then Tammy turned to finish her goodbyes. In a clubhouse where neighbors had spent the evening celebrating together, it was an ordinary moment—a child close by, a brief conversation, the expectation of going home. What happened in the minutes that followed would turn those simple details into urgent questions.

    Members Only: The Space Between Two Glances

  3. Oct 22 · Subscribers Only

    Early Release 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.

    Early Release EP310: Forty-Five Years (Pt.2)

  4. Oct 16

    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. SOURCES:  1) Wayne County Prosecutor, “Prosecutor Kym Worthy Dismisses Homicide Charges Against Richard Phillips,” March 28, 2018 2) National Registry of Exonerations, murder case 3) National Registry of Exonerations, robbery case 4) University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, murder case 5) University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, robbery case 6) Michigan NPR: After 45 years behind bars for murder, Richard Phillips is finally, officially exonerated 7) Michigan NPR: Longest-serving exoneree in US history “just glad to be free” after 47 years in prison 8) Michigan Department of Attorney General: Michigan AG Nessel Approves $2,320,000 in Compensation Awards to Wrongfully Convicted Men 9) FOX 2 Detroit, Phillips's art exhibition and interview

    EP309: Forty-Five Years Pt. 1

  5. Oct 15 · Subscribers Only

    Members Only: Case Of A Child Killer - Shirley Winters

    For nearly three decades, wherever Shirley Winters went, tragedy seemed to follow. Children died, homes burned, and a grieving mother repeatedly emerged from the ashes. But was Shirley the victim of unimaginable misfortune, or the woman responsible for it? When a toddler's mysterious death in 2006 prompted investigators to reopen decades-old cases, they uncovered a chilling pattern of suspicious fires, buried secrets, and murdered children. This week on Crimes & Consequences, we unravel the disturbing case of Shirley Winters, a mother whose darkest secrets followed her long after the flames went out.

    Members Only: Case Of A Child Killer - Shirley Winters

  6. Oct 9 · Subscribers Only

    Members Only: Left For Dead - The Amber Smith Story

    In August 2013, 20-year-old single mother Amber Smith went out for drinks with a friend in Fort Collins, Colorado, never imagining the night would end in unimaginable violence. Hours later, police discovered her naked, bound with duct tape, brutally beaten, and abandoned in a secluded park. She had been violently sexually assaulted, strangled, and left with life-threatening injuries. Miraculously, Amber survived, but her attacker disappeared without a trace. For four years, she lived with the terrifying knowledge that the man who nearly killed her was still out there. When a DNA breakthrough finally exposed his identity, the truth was more horrifying than Amber could have imagined. Her attacker hadn't simply escaped justice—he had found his way back into her life, becoming someone she trusted with her darkest memories.

    Members Only: Left For Dead - The Amber Smith Story

  7. Sep 25 · Subscribers Only

    Members Only: Bomb City

    On the northern edge of Amarillo, Texas, the land stretches outward beneath an enormous sky. There are few natural barriers to slow the wind as it sweeps across the Panhandle, carrying dust through cattle yards, oil fields, church parking lots, and neighborhoods built along a rigid grid. Amarillo has long been a place defined by powerful institutions: ranching, football, evangelical Christianity, and Pantex, the nearby government facility where nuclear weapons have been assembled and dismantled. The city’s association with Pantex earned it an unsettling nickname—Bomb City. In the late 1990s, however, another kind of volatility was developing inside Amarillo. It could be seen in restaurant parking lots and high-school hallways, in the insults shouted from passing cars, and in the lines teenagers drew between themselves. On one side were the young people who seemed to fit comfortably inside the city’s established culture: athletes, cheerleaders, popular students, and the young men commonly called “white hats” because of the collegiate baseball caps many of them wore. On the other were punks, skateboarders, artists, Goths, and others whose clothes and music announced that they had no intention of fitting in. Brian Deneke belonged to the latter group--Brian's mohawk hair was like a target on his back. And one sad day in December 1997, the conflict between these groups came to a head and resulted in tragedy.

    Members Only: Bomb City

  8. Sep 23

    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.

    EP308: She Tried To Tell Them
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Listen to the gripping details of the world's most brutal murders presented to you by two attorneys who rely on their sarcasm and wit to plow through the horrors of the crimes. Court and police records are heavily relied on to ensure the accuracy of each episode. Listen to Crimes and Consequences for your weekly dose of hardcore true crime.

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  • Creator
    Crimes and Consequences
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    692
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Crimes and Consequences, Inc.
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    Crimes and Consequences
  • Provider
    TNT Crimes and Consequences, Inc.

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