Five Shots in the Dark | To Be Believed | S3-E9

Suspect

Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.2 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After being released from prison, and exonerated on charges of murdering Kasey Schoen, Leon Benson meets for the first time with Kasey’s sister, Kolleen.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of Suspect, Ad Free right now.
0:05.0	Join Woundery Plus in the Woundery app or on Apple Podcasts. Wonder.
0:17.0	Camside Media.
0:21.0	Okay, so here's a thought experiment for you. It's been years, decades, certain that you understand
0:25.2	the particulars of a tragedy that completely shattered your life. And that
0:29.7	understanding, over time, it doesn't heal you because nothing will but it brings you a bit
0:36.0	of peace and calm then one day someone shows up at your doorstep and tells you
0:42.3	everything you thought you knew was wrong.
0:45.0	Suddenly you're thrust back into uncertainty.
0:49.0	The ground under your feet feels unstable.
0:51.0	There's no other word for it. You're traumatized all over again.
0:57.6	This scenario in a lot of ways it's exactly what happened to Colleen Bunch, Casey Shane's older sister,
1:04.8	and the weeks after Laura and Charlie began working to free Leon Benson from prison.
1:10.4	After all, like a lot of relatives of murder victims, Colleen had relied on police and prosecutors
1:16.3	to find the truth.
1:17.3	At the 1999 trials, she'd sat on their side of the courtroom, far from the defendant.
1:24.4	What they told her, she'd believed.
1:29.8	By the time of Leon's exoneration,
1:31.8	when Eric and I sat down with Colleen and Indianapolis,
1:35.2	she had started to accept the idea that the police had gotten the wrong guy, even if she
1:39.5	also resented the fact that the story was now about Leon. What about Casey, her little brother?
1:46.4	That innocent kid shot to death at the age of 25. The videos of Leon being released,
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