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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi there it's Dan Slepian, |
0:07.3 | Dateline producer and host of the podcast Letters from Sing Sing. |
0:11.3 | Today I have a special bonus episode for you to listen to. |
0:15.1 | It's an audio excerpt from my new book The Sing Sing Files. It's an incredibly |
0:21.4 | personal project and an expansion of what you've heard about in the podcast, |
0:26.2 | my investigation into the wrongful conviction of John Adrian J.J. Velasquez. |
0:31.9 | In the book, |
0:33.0 | book I cover not only J.J.'s case, but the cases of five other men who like J.J. |
0:38.9 | Were locked up for crimes they did not commit. |
0:42.1 | I take you through the stories of these six men, uncovering the |
0:45.5 | different ways in which our criminal justice system failed them. You'll hear from me |
0:50.4 | and some of the men directly about their stories. |
0:54.3 | If you like what you hear in this episode and want to hear more, |
0:57.6 | click the link in the episode notes to order a copy of the book or |
1:01.4 | audio book. |
1:02.4 | The Sing-Sink Files is also available wherever books and |
1:05.8 | audio books are sold. Now, here's an excerpt from the Sing Sing Files, read by me. |
1:18.0 | Introduction, J.J. |
1:24.8 | It was Thanksgiving Day 2002. |
1:28.1 | I was at the Greenhaven Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison a couple of hours north of Manhattan, filming a story for |
1:35.9 | NBC's Dateline about two incarcerated men who insisted they'd been wrongfully convicted of |
1:41.5 | murder. |
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