When an Omaha teenager disappeared outside of her school, the police looked at people she knew as their likely suspects.

But when a surprise confession came in, this case ended up in years of legal wrangling, only to leave people asking if someone can be wrongfully convicted without actually being innocent.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello and welcome to crime lines.

First things first, I want to give a shout out to my listener, Joy, who is the one who recommended the Kayla Kelly episode from a couple of weeks ago. I lost her name on my spreadsheet, so I'm really glad she reached out because that case was really important

to cover. We need to talk about red flags in early dating for people's protection. So I'm glad we

were able to talk about that case. I also want to give out a few podcast recommendations based

on the book I shouted out last week. At the True Crime Podcast Festival,

I was gifted a copy of the book Our Friend Timogen, which makes the case for innocence for

Timogen Kensu, who was convicted in the murder of Scott Macklam. I have never gotten more than

one or two messages or comments about a book I've mentioned on the show before,

with the exception of protecting the gift. I usually hear about that one. But with this book,

I got quite a few messages recommending podcasts on the case, and I did not realize this was such a

hot button case in true crime. So I'm going to pass on those recommendations for anyone else who's interested in it.

The first is the consult, which is hosted by someone I've worked on a panel with before,

former FBI profiler Julia Cowley.

And I absolutely love her.

I hope to work with her on some crossover stuff in the future.

The other two podcasts recommended were the prosecutors if you want an overview of the case,

and I think they did two or three episodes on it, and then murder sheet if you want a several

episode long form presentation on everything.

Between the book and the podcast, I imagine you're going to get

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