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  • The Fire That Didn't Start

    The Fire That Didn't Start
    Aug 4 2026
    When Marcus Reid's house burned down in the middle of the night, he grabbed his two children and ran for their lives. But when a fire marshal declared the fire an act of arson, Marcus became the prime suspect in a crime he never committed. The pour patterns on the floor. The V-shaped burns in the hallway. The crazed glass in the children's bedroom. Every piece of evidence pointed to guilt.

    This is the story of a man convicted on the basis of fire science that was later proven completely wrong, a young lawyer who refused to give up, and a fire scientist who reconstructed the truth from the ashes.

    CHAPTERS:
    0:08 -- [Cold Open: The Fire]
    4:26 -- [The Investigation]
    16:33 -- [The Trial]
    26:59 -- [The Appeal]
    33:36 -- [The Breakthrough]
    38:38 -- [The Legal Battle]
    46:31 -- [Reflection: Justice and Science]
    55:08 -- [Outro]

    When bad science meets the courtroom, innocent people pay the price. Marcus Reid spent eight years in prison for setting a fire that was later proven to be accidental. His case exposes the dangerous gap between what fire investigators believe and what the science actually shows.

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    56 Min.
  • Forty Whacks

    Forty Whacks
    Aug 3 2026
    In the summer of 1892, an axe fell twice in a grey house on Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew Borden and his wife Abby were found brutally murdered, their skulls caved in by repeated blows. The only person in the house? Their daughter, Lizzie.

    Was Lizzie Borden a grieving daughter wrongly accused, or a cold-blooded killer who beat the system? The evidence was circumstantial. The trial was sensational. The verdict was lightning fast. And more than a century later, the mystery remains unsolved.

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 - Introduction / Cold Open
    3:30 - The House on Second Street
    8:45 - The Bodies
    13:20 - The Prime Suspect
    19:45 - The Grand Jury and the Indictment
    24:30 - The Trial
    30:15 - The Blood on the Dress
    35:00 - Lizzie on the Stand
    40:30 - The Defense's Closing
    44:15 - The Verdict
    48:00 - Aftermath
    51:00 - The Legal Legacy

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    54 Min.
  • Thirty-One Days

    Thirty-One Days
    Aug 2 2026
    A two-year-old girl vanishes. Her mother says nothing for thirty-one days. When the truth finally surfaces, it triggers one of the most divisive criminal trials in American history.

    In this episode, we follow the case of a young Orlando mother whose daughter disappeared in the summer of 2008. For thirty-one days, she maintained an elaborate fiction about a nanny named Zanny while her child was already dead. The trial that followed raised fundamental questions about reasonable doubt, circumstantial evidence, and whether a mother's lies prove she is a killer.

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 -- [Introduction / Cold Open]
    0:08 -- [The Phone Call]
    1:54 -- [The Anthony Family]
    6:24 -- [Thirty-One Days]
    12:04 -- [The Discovery]
    15:01 -- [The Indictment and the Trial]
    19:00 -- [The Evidence]
    29:42 -- [The Jury]
    33:24 -- [The Defense]
    37:17 -- [Closing Arguments and the Verdict]
    41:16 -- [The Legal Analysis]
    47:07 -- [The Aftermath]
    51:09 -- [The What-If]
    56:35 -- [Closing / Reflection]
    56:47 -- [Outro]

    A deep dive into the architecture of reasonable doubt, the limits of circumstantial evidence, and the impossible burden of proving guilt beyond any doubt.

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    57 Min.
  • The Girl Who Typed Kill

    The Girl Who Typed Kill
    Jul 18 2026
    In this episode of Guilty Plea, we dig into the case file on The Girl Who Typed Kill.

    Today's case: The Girl Who Typed Kill.

    This is Episode 73041064 of Guilty Plea — the show that examines the cases, suspects, and investigations that didn't get the spotlight they deserved.

    What we cover in this episode:
    • The victim: who they were and what happened
    • The investigation: what police did, what they missed
    • The suspects: who was looked at, who wasn't
    • The evidence: what the forensic team found
    • The verdict: where the case stands now

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    57 Min.
  • The Arsonist's Prayer

    The Arsonist's Prayer
    Aug 1 2026
    When the fire consumed the house on Q Street, three little girls didn't survive. Their father, Clayton Willard, was convicted of arson murder based on fire science that has since been thoroughly debunked. But the courts refused to reconsider - even after the lead investigator recanted.

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 - Intro / Cold Open
    2:59 - The Fire
    7:16 - The Evidence
    9:50 - The Defense
    14:02 - The Doubt
    18:01 - The Reckoning
    20:31 - The Lesson
    24:40 - The System
    28:43 - The Prosecutor's Burden
    32:36 - The Reckoning Within
    36:19 - The Prayer
    38:29 - The Witnesses
    47:12 - The Math of Innocence
    51:23 - The Other Cases
    57:05 - Outro

    Based on the real case that has haunted fire scientists and legal scholars for decades. The pour patterns were not pour patterns. The alligator charring was not a sign of arson. The trace gasoline may have been a laboratory artifact. And yet a man was put to death.

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    57 Min.
  • THE PEOPLE v. COLLINS: THE MATH THAT CONVICTED

    THE PEOPLE v. COLLINS: THE MATH THAT CONVICTED
    Jul 17 2026
    In this episode of Guilty Plea, we dig into the case file on THE PEOPLE v. COLLINS: THE MATH THAT CONVICTED.

    Today's case: THE PEOPLE v. COLLINS: THE MATH THAT CONVICTED.

    This is Episode 73022654 of Guilty Plea — the show that examines the cases, suspects, and investigations that didn't get the spotlight they deserved.

    What we cover in this episode:
    • The victim: who they were and what happened
    • The investigation: what police did, what they missed
    • The suspects: who was looked at, who wasn't
    • The evidence: what the forensic team found
    • The verdict: where the case stands now

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    1 Std. und 6 Min.
  • The Woman Who Snapped

    The Woman Who Snapped
    Aug 1 2026
    In the predawn hours of November 5, 1989, Betty Broderick walked into her ex-husband's La Jolla bedroom and fired five shots from a .38 revolver, killing him and his new wife as they slept. What followed was one of the most divisive murder trials in American history -- a case that pitted victimhood against free will, emotional abuse against cold-blooded murder, and left two juries unable to agree on where the truth lay.

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 — Cold Open
    2:59 — The Perfect Wife
    13:37 — The Morning of November Fifth
    18:47 — The First Trial
    25:58 — The Second Trial
    32:07 — The Children
    34:09 — The Appeal and Aftermath
    36:01 — The Legal Questions
    41:34 — The What If
    44:20 — The Legacy
    46:53 — Closing

    Based on the real case of Elisabeth Broderick, convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in 1991. This dramatization explores the intersection of divorce, power, and the breaking point of the human mind.

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    47 Min.
  • Twelve Seconds

    Twelve Seconds
    Aug 5 2006
    Twelve seconds of audio. Four words that could mean anything. When a tech CEO is found dead in his Denver loft from a lethal injection of potassium chloride, all eyes turn to his business partner and best friend of twenty years. The evidence is circumstantial, the motive is money, and the prosecution's star witness is a recording -- twelve seconds where the defendant says four words that sound like a confession. But do they?

    A murder case built on financial records, cell tower data, and one ambiguous phone call. A six-week trial that divided a city. And a jury that had to decide: does "I'll take care of it" mean what the prosecution says it means?

    CHAPTERS:
    0:00 - Introduction / Cold Open
    11:21 - The Crime: David Chen Found Dead
    21:58 - The Money Trail: Eleven Million Motives
    31:48 - The Investigation: Fingerprints and GPS Data
    38:10 - The Recording: Twelve Seconds That Changed Everything
    44:18 - The Trial: Experts, Cross-Examinations, and Reasonable Doubt
    50:19 - The Verdict: Not Guilty
    54:29 - The Aftermath: Justice Served or Justice Denied?

    Based on real cases involving secretly recorded evidence, circumstantial murder prosecutions, and the limits of audio forensics in American courtrooms.

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    57 Min.