Previously, on actual innocence.

I can tell you a couple of things that people should know about these cases.

They're extremely interesting.

At the low end, they're interesting.

At the high end, they're transfixing.

But the other thing that goes along with that is they're depressing,

because they don't usually have happy endings.

Even the people who are released don't

really write off under the sunset and live happily ever after. And then, worst of all,

realize when you read these cases that these are the lucky ones. These are the ones who did get

found, who did get released, who did get exonerated.

And for each of those, there are several others or maybe dozens or hundreds of others who didn't.

Actual Innocence is a podcast that tells the stories of people who serve time for crimes they did not commit.

Listen to the heartbreaking true accounts of wrongfully convicted people and their journey to exoneration.

Thanks so much for listening. Thanks for joining me for Part 2 of The Helpers. If you haven't listened to Part 1,

you might want to go back and do that first, as that's where our experts are introduced.

This episode includes interviews with three attorneys who work with people who have been wrongfully convicted.

In the second half of the episode, there's an interview with another helper who reveals some of the behind-the-scenes work done on the undisclosed podcast.

I'm Brooke, and here are the helpers. You know, some cases,

and in here we're talking about, you know, cases that we've actually accepted for litigation,

because the others, you know, if we're investigating a case, even if I feel very strongly about

something, I have to really hedge that because I don't want to become too committed, because

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