This is the Fall Line.

Our paths have crossed with Journalist and Podcaster Maggie Freelings several times over the past three years.

We cover cold cases that have received little attention, and Maggie investigates wrongful convictions.

So we're lucky enough to know many of the same great advocates and experts.

As we've become friends with Maggie, we've learned more about her career, starting with NPR's Latino USA,

and shifting to focus on incarceration and the criminal justice system.

Her work is important, whether she's raising Patreon funds to support exonerees and their families,

or organizing letter writing campaigns to reopen cases.

Though some listeners may know Maggie from her appearance on Oxygen's The Disappearance of More and Morey,

her journalistic career has been focused on justice, or more specifically, injustice.

Her earliest reporting looked at wage inequality among women in the New York City fast food industry,

and at Latino USA, Maggie was often on assignment at the Southern border, where she covered many issues,

including abuse at detention centers.

In a 2019 piece called Skeleton by the Lake, she covered one forensic scientist quest to identify

a decedent found in Michigan. That story also revealed the quote,

difficulties of identifying Latino remains in the United States.

Maggie's background in public radio, crime, and justice reporting is obvious in her podcasting.

Her projects, unjust and unsolved, suave, and murder and alliance,

each focus on the criminal justice system and incarceration.

Unjust and unsolved is, to our knowledge, the only show to take on a new wrongful conviction case each week.

Like its sister show, Murder and Alliance, it's part of the True Crime Obsessed Network.

We sat down to talk with Maggie about her work on unjust and unsolved,

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