Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.

Listener discretion is advised. Hello, everyone and welcome to episode 378 of the criminology podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.

And this is Mike Morford. Mr. Morford. How you doing this week, buddy? I'm doing pretty good. How you

doing? I'm having a great week. You know, you and I are recording pretty early in the week. And so, you know, not a full week yet, but it's trending upwards.

Let's say that.

That's always good.

And you're getting a little nice, cooler weather probably, and it's making things a little bit easier on you.

Yeah, but unlike you, I start to get a little blue. I love the fall,

but the fall quickly turns to the winter. And that's not my favorite time of year, for sure.

Yeah, that's the one thing I miss is the fall i used to like coming out my uh door every

morning and just taking that fresh breath of air that you would bring in and now it's just

you don't have that nice cool air in the morning i do miss that well let's go ahead and give our

patreon shoutouts we had new support from randa and and Kate Goldgert. So great new support.

We really appreciate it. Thanks so much, Rand and Kate. And thanks to everyone else that supports

the show. And for anyone else that would like to head over to patreon.com slash criminology to get

started. All right. Let's jump right into this episode. And this week,

we're going to be looking at a case where technology played a crucial role, specifically

data from a Fitbit device. Many times when we talk about data on the show, it's been a

suspect's downfall, destroying an alibi or catching them in a lie.

But in this episode, we're going to talk about how an innocent man might have ended up in prison

and could have still been there today.

If it weren't for data from a Fitbit, proving that he was telling the truth.

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