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13 Alibis - 8 - Wrongful Convictions

Josh Mankiewicz and Dan Slepian discuss the issues of wrongful convictions in front of a live audience at the CrimeCon conference in New Orleans.

8 - Wrongful Convictions

Hi, Dan Sleppy in here. Thanks for listening to 13 Alibis.

About a month after we released this podcast, I had a discussion with my Dateline colleague

Josh Mankowitz about the series and about wrongful convictions in general at a convention

called CrimeCon in New Orleans. So we made a bonus episode out of that conversation.

Hi everybody, thanks for coming. I'm Josh Mankowitz. This is Dan Sleppy. I know you've

seen Dateline. Dateline almost always about the best in law enforcement, about officers

and detectives who don't give up, who take the case file home with them, who sometimes

keep working in case even after they've retired or after they've been transferred to another

division. And those are stories are a pleasure to tell. And they're ones that our audience

has responded to and ones that I think deserve a great deal of the credit for how well

Dateline has done over the years and how long we've been on and how devoted all of you

Some of the less often we tell stories like the one Dan Tells in the podcast, 13 Alibis,

which is the story of Richard Rosario. Tell me how you first came across his story.

It was 2013. I first heard about Richard Rosario and I heard about him like I have so many

others of these kinds of stories that I've done. Sometimes I describe my professional life

as like the surreal game of dominoes where one innocent person has led me to the next

over the years. I've done several stories for Dateline over the years, one with Josh,

that have helped people get out of prison. And so I was visiting an inmate that I had

done another story about. And he said, I got another one for you and I'm thinking how

many are there. And he said, there's this guy named Richard Rosario. And what struck

How did a man who claims he had 13 alibi witnesses get convicted of murder and serve 20 years in prison? In this original series from Dateline NBC, producer Dan Slepian chronicles the case of Richard Rosario, who was convicted of a 1996 murder in New York City. Rosario has always insisted that he is innocent, and that 13 alibi witnesses will swear he was a thousand miles away in Florida while the crime was happening in New York. Ride along in real time as Slepian spends two years digging deep into Rosario’s case in a quest for the truth.


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0:00.0	Hi, Dan Sleppy in here. Thanks for listening to 13 Alibis.
0:04.9	About a month after we released this podcast, I had a discussion with my Dateline colleague
0:09.3	Josh Mankowitz about the series and about wrongful convictions in general at a convention
0:14.4	called CrimeCon in New Orleans. So we made a bonus episode out of that conversation.
0:20.0	Here's Josh.
0:21.0	Hi everybody, thanks for coming. I'm Josh Mankowitz. This is Dan Sleppy. I know you've
0:27.1	seen Dateline. Dateline almost always about the best in law enforcement, about officers
0:34.5	and detectives who don't give up, who take the case file home with them, who sometimes
0:39.5	keep working in case even after they've retired or after they've been transferred to another
0:43.2	division. And those are stories are a pleasure to tell. And they're ones that our audience
0:49.6	has responded to and ones that I think deserve a great deal of the credit for how well
0:57.1	Dateline has done over the years and how long we've been on and how devoted all of you
1:02.1	are to it.
1:03.6	Some of the less often we tell stories like the one Dan Tells in the podcast, 13 Alibis,
1:09.4	which is the story of Richard Rosario. Tell me how you first came across his story.
1:15.3	It was 2013. I first heard about Richard Rosario and I heard about him like I have so many
1:22.3	others of these kinds of stories that I've done. Sometimes I describe my professional life
1:28.4	as like the surreal game of dominoes where one innocent person has led me to the next
1:33.3	over the years. I've done several stories for Dateline over the years, one with Josh,
1:38.4	that have helped people get out of prison. And so I was visiting an inmate that I had
1:43.1	done another story about. And he said, I got another one for you and I'm thinking how
1:47.1	many are there. And he said, there's this guy named Richard Rosario. And what struck
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8 - Wrongful Convictions

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