In the late 80s and early 90s, the crack up pandemic was in full swing, and one of New

York's most powerful drug gangs was Lennie and Nelson Sepulveda's Wild Cowboys, aka

the Red Top Crew. Red Top referred to the color of the caps on their crackmiles, and

their less powerful competitors were called Orange Top and Yellow Top. Yellow Top began

selling out of an alleyway on Beekman Avenue in the Bronx, which was Red Top territory.

On December 16, 1991, an incident that became known as the Quad Murders. Nelson Sepulveda

and three others rolled up with semi-automatics, indiscriminately spraying 60 bullets into

the alleyway on Beekman, killing four and wounding one. Detective Mark Tappins was under

intense pressure to bring order to the dangerous area, and he indicted 41 people as co-defendants

for several drug-related incidents, including the Quad Murders. Tappins' street sweep turned

suspects into witnesses, and nine of the 41 indicted went to trial. Five of the co-defendants

were blamed for the Quad Murders, four of whom are innocent, and one of those poor souls

is Danny Rincone. Alibi Witnesses placed Danny on the other side of a large city block

at the time of the shooting, including a victim's mother and brother, but the jury could

not see through the trial's circus atmosphere. Danny was convicted and sentenced to 158 and

a third to life. Glenn Garber and Farah Rossner from the Exoneration Initiative joined Danny

Rincone calling it from Attica Prison to tell us about the case that they built for Danny's

freedom. This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flamme.

In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police after running away from a reform school

in Mount Meg's Alabama. I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice, and in a new podcast, I

investigate the abuse that thousands of black children suffered at the Alabama Industrial

School for Negro Children and how those five girls changed everything. Listen to unreformed

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