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Okay, so here's a thought experiment for you. It's been years, decades, certain that you understand

the particulars of a tragedy that completely shattered your life. And that

understanding, over time, it doesn't heal you because nothing will but it brings you a bit

of peace and calm then one day someone shows up at your doorstep and tells you

everything you thought you knew was wrong.

Suddenly you're thrust back into uncertainty.

The ground under your feet feels unstable.

There's no other word for it. You're traumatized all over again.

This scenario in a lot of ways it's exactly what happened to Colleen Bunch, Casey Shane's older sister,

and the weeks after Laura and Charlie began working to free Leon Benson from prison.

After all, like a lot of relatives of murder victims, Colleen had relied on police and prosecutors

to find the truth.

At the 1999 trials, she'd sat on their side of the courtroom, far from the defendant.

What they told her, she'd believed.

By the time of Leon's exoneration,

when Eric and I sat down with Colleen and Indianapolis,

she had started to accept the idea that the police had gotten the wrong guy, even if she

also resented the fact that the story was now about Leon. What about Casey, her little brother?

That innocent kid shot to death at the age of 25. The videos of Leon being released,

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