My name is Maggie Freeling.

A majoringist and producer and this is unjust and unsolved.

A podcast about people who I believe are wrongfully incarcerated for crimes that are actually

unsolved.

You've surely heard stories like these on the news, but the thing is, the ones you've

heard about barely scratch the surface.

The Innocence Project gives a conservative estimate that about 20,000 innocent people

are currently locked away in US prisons.

After reading some of these stories, I felt compelled to do something.

So I sent 20 letters to people who are locked up despite evidence pointing away from them.

Some responded through mail, some emailed, and some called me on contraband cell phones.

But all wanted their stories to be heard.

So I left my public radio job and decided to do just that.

In each episode, I speak with those people, their loved ones, supporters, and lawyers,

to shed light on how they wound up incarcerated for decades, despite the evidence, and how that

means the crimes they were convicted of are still unsolved.

This week I'm telling the story of Brandon Spencer.

In Halloween night 2012, 19-year-old Brandon and his girlfriend were on the University

of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, attending a Halloween party.

We're an estimated 400 people came to enjoy the night's festivities.

That is until gunshots wrung out.

And it was pandemonium.

...