Episode 261: Wrongfully Convicted

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In 1992 Levon Brooks was arrested for murdering a three-year-old girl and sentenced to life in prison. Only a few months later Kennedy Brewer was arrested for a nearly identical murder and was sentenced to death. Both cases were based almost entirely on faulty bite mark evidence and both men spent almost two decades in prison for crimes they did not commit. However in 2000, Kennedy Brewer wrote a letter to the Innocence Project asking for their help with his case which was when the fight for the truth began and the real story came to light.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Steph and this is not today.
0:20.0	Hello and welcome or welcome back. Just as a reminder, there will be no episode next week
0:26.8	because we will be celebrating Christmas with our families. There will be an episode the
0:31.4	following week on the 30th, but then there won't be an episode the week after that because we'll
0:36.2	be getting married and be on our honeymoon.
0:38.9	Super chill. No big deal. So these next few weeks will be a little bit scattered, but on January 13th,
0:44.6	we'll be back to our regular scheduled episodes. I also wanted to remind you that over on our
0:50.1	Patreon, we released bonus episode number 46 last week about a really insane murder-for-hire
0:56.4	case between a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law. So if you're interested in hearing that
1:01.4	and so many other bonus episodes, or voting on stories you want to hear, and more, head over to
1:06.8	patreon.com slash not today podcast. You won't regret it. But today, I'm going to be talking about a
1:12.9	topic I've been wanting to look into for a while now. It's a new kind of survivor story for us,
1:18.2	but definitely one that fits the bill. I'm going to be diving into two wrongful convictions that
1:24.0	led to the imprisonment of two innocent men for nearly 20 years. Before I get started,
1:30.5	I wanted to give a massive trigger warning. This case is dark and does involve the kidnapping,
1:35.4	sexual assault, and murder of a minor. I want to start this out by talking about the Innocence
1:41.0	Project, because without them, these two men would probably still be in prison, or possibly dead. The Innocence Project, because without them, these two men would probably still be in
1:45.2	prison, or possibly dead. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by attorneys Barry C. Sheck
1:52.5	and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, to use DNA testing
1:59.3	to exonerate the wrongfully convicted and reform the
2:02.6	criminal justice system. In 2000, the Innocence Project received a letter from a man named
2:08.7	Kennedy Brewer claiming his innocence. It read, quote, back in 1992, I was accused of killing a three-year-old
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