Are you with me on this? Is your dog your fur baby? You worry about what they're eating or if they're anxious

Maybe even throw birthday parties for them or even buy clothing for them yikes

So how did your pup evolve from a man eating wolf? I'm petty steel from predator to fur baby in 20,000 years next on the backstory

Everything's wise we have virtually no evidence we had the word of a 15-year-old who told lies a lot of lies

In 1995 detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer deputy Bill Hardy

Without solid evidence the case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored

We did come into an innocent man and he's been on death row

All these years and I didn't know it

I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts. This is Ear Witness

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This is in retrospect a podcast about pop culture from the 80s and 90s that shaped us

I'm very much a product of the pop culture I consumed and I don't think that's a bad thing

I'm Jessica Bennett a New York Times writer and best-selling author

I'm Susie Beta Caram an award-winning TV producer and filmmaker every week will revisit a moment in cultural history

That we just can't stop thinking about from tabloid headlines to elicit student teacher relationships

And one very memorable red swimsuit. I found myself in Pamela Anderson's attic as you do

I put that red swimsuit in a safe because it seemed everybody wanted it

We're digging deep to better understand what these moments taught us about the world and our place in it

I want you to really smell the axe body spray that emanated during this time

It was presented more as kind of like a crime topic

Okay, that's not a lie

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