Already Ben Dead - Benjamin Schreiber

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Serving a life sentence for murder in Iowa, prisoner Benjamin Schreiber claimed his term was fulfilled after his heart briefly stopped during a 2015 medical crisis. This episode details Schreiber's bizarre legal argument that his momentary clinical "death" counted as serving the rest of his natural life. We explore the court's rejection of this claim, affirming that since he was revived and is legally alive, his life sentence remains in effect.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.8	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.4	I've never understood why we call a life sentence and a death sentence different things.
0:22.2	And like, what if somebody dies before they die?
0:25.1	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.6	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:33.6	I am John here with Jamie.
0:35.2	I don't think you were done asking what, you know, what you need to know or telling her your order.
0:40.7	It's hard to find good help these days.
0:43.4	It really is.
0:44.0	It's super rude.
0:45.1	Basically, what I was going to say is, what if you die and then come back to life on death row,
0:50.5	that has happened.
0:52.1	And it appears to be.
0:53.8	I feel like a good attorney could say you have served your
0:57.3	time good man you have served the good fight or you have served your time you fought the good fight
1:02.8	travel on little soldier well this guy is surely fighting that battle why don't you get us rolling
1:08.4	yeah so tonight's story just is incredible. So it's
1:12.7	about a man incarcerated for life who claimed that with his heart briefly stopped in a hospital
1:18.8	that he had already served his sentence. So is that even possible? So this case is about Benjamin
1:25.5	Schrober, who was convicted in Iowa, a first-degree murder
1:29.2	in the 1990s. He was sentenced to life without parole. In 2015, while hospitalized, his body
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