Locked Up for a Crime He Didn’t Commit: The JJ Velazquez Case

Housewives of True Crime

Tabitha Kane

Comedy, True Crime, History

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tabitha Kane covers the wrongful conviction of Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez who was wrongfully convicted in 1999 for the 1998 murder of retired NYPD detective Albert Ward during a Harlem gambling-parlor robbery, despite no physical evidence connecting him to the crime and descriptions that didn’t match him. Witnesses initially misidentified him, and he spent over 23 years in prison before his sentence was commuted in 2021. A 2022 reinvestigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Post-Conviction Justice Unit found DNA on a betting slip did not match Velazquez, leading a judge to vacate his conviction in 2024. Velasquez now advocates for justice reform...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Housewives of True Crime. I'm Tabitha, your True Crime Housewife, and I'm bringing you real crimes, real twists, and searching for real justice every week.
0:14.3	I've got a brand new disco biscuit riding shotgun, sometimes a fan, sometimes a friend, but someone always fabulous.
0:22.2	So grab whatever you're drinking these days, press play, and let's talk crime in the
0:27.6	carpool line.
0:28.7	Clink, clink.
0:29.2	Talk a crime.
0:30.8	Talk a crime with a carpal line.
0:33.1	How to buy to touch you cry.
0:35.9	Talking crime with a couple of war. How to buy. Hello. Hello. Hello. Happy. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. I'm going to predict the future right now. I'm going to predict that
0:58.1	Jenny's kids and my kids are back at school on Monday when this airs. Oh, on Monday. Wait, but like,
1:07.5	you don't think they're going to go back before that? I don't know.
1:11.3	I'm not in Texas right now, so I can't tell you.
1:14.0	So if that's why you're watching our YouTube, you will see that both of us are remote.
1:19.2	But I know they're not going back to school until Thursday.
1:24.9	And let's see with the weather.
1:29.3	No, they'll go back to school.
1:32.3	Definitely by Friday.
1:34.6	Oh my gosh.
1:35.8	No, definitely by Thursday.
1:38.2	Okay, maybe.
1:39.5	I'm saying Thursday.
1:41.2	But Monday for shizzle, my nizzle.
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