Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Leon Benson spent more than half of his life, a total of 24 years, in an Indiana state prison for a murder he didn't commit. Despite the lack of physical evidence and a questionable eyewitness identification, he was convicted. But new realities start to come to light when attorney Lara Bazelon takes up his case and is determined to secure Benson's release. Season three of Suspect, co-produced by Campside Media and Wondery, delves into the flaws in the criminal justice system that led to Benson's wrongful conviction for the 1998 shooting of Kasey Schoen in Indianapolis. The investigation aims to uncover the truth about who really committed the crime and why the eyewitness testimony that led to Benson's conviction was so shaky. Host Matthew Shaer joins co-producer and writer Bazelon to take a deep dive into the nature of memory and how it can be fallible and result in an innocent man's life being wasted, while the real perpetrator remains unpunished. As the investigation unfolds, will Bazelon and her team gather enough evidence to free Benson? And what will happen to Schoen's real killer?

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1:00.2	Hey, y'all, I want to tell you about a podcast that we think you are really going to enjoy.
1:05.2	This is called Suspect Five Shots in the Dark.
1:08.6	The latest season looks at a case with two victims, one murdered in cold
1:12.7	blood, and one imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. It follows Leon Benson's story, a man who
1:18.8	spent more than half of his life a total of 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the murder
1:24.7	of Casey Shane. A man he never met. Casey was murdered in the middle
1:30.0	of an August night, shot point blank while idling in his Dodge pickup truck in North
1:35.1	Indianapolis. There was no physical evidence, no known motive, and no one coming forward with
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