57: A Murder in the Park

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Look, the specifics of this story are confusing AF. BUT at the heart of it, we’re dealing with a murder, a wrongful conviction, a false confession and A. WOMAN. NAMED. SHAWN. (She’s garbage, but we’re obsessed with the gender swapping name situation.).

With his execution just 48 hours away, Anthony Porter's life was saved by a Northwestern University journalism class. Their re-investigation of the crime for which he was convicted-a double homicide in a Chicago park-led to the discovery of the real killer, Alstory Simon, whose confession exonerated Porter. If it all sounds too good to be true, it's because, as compellingly argued here, Porter actually is guilty, Simon is an innocent man and both are just pawns in a much larger plan.

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0:29.0	Julian Pensavalle. Patrick, I forgot about it again. You took me by surprise again. How
0:38.0	do I, we do it every week? How do I help my forgetting? How is it always a shock to
0:42.0	me?
0:43.0	Well, look, listen in front of you for the first time in a little while. I know we, you guys,
0:54.4	I'm moving, so we've been recording in the studio and we have not had the garbage
0:58.4	bell in weeks and weeks and weeks. Welcome back, bitch.
1:01.4	Well, you know, you did forget your recorder last week, so it's like, you know, moving is
1:08.4	hard. You're scattered. I get it, girl.
1:10.4	Girl, a couple of announcements. Yes. You guys, when it comes to the Patreon, it is going
1:15.4	so well. Hey, Patreon fan. Hey. We are such a good time with the staircase, but here's
1:20.4	what we're doing, you guys. This last episode that we did at the staircase, staircase
1:24.4	episode seven was the last one that we're going to do by itself. We're going to do episodes
1:29.4	eight and nine together, ten and eleven together, twelve and thirteen together. We're going
1:32.4	to sort of get through this. Right. And then what are we doing next? Oh my God, you guys.
1:36.4	Should we tell the people? Should I give them a hint? Yeah, yeah, yeah, give a hint.
1:40.4	Okay. Um, kill them all. Of course. The jinx. You guys, the jinx. We're doing the jinx.
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