Special Preview: "The Sing Sing Chronicles" Documentary Series

Letters from Sing Sing

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

"Letters from Sing Sing" Host and "Dateline" Producer Dan Slepian gives a special preview of "The Sing Sing Chronicles," a special two-night event presented by MSNBC Films. Building on decades of Dan's investigative reporting, the four-part documentary series from NBC News Studios and Director Dawn Porter exposes the injustices of different wrongful convictions at the notorious Sing Sing prison. The first two episodes of "The Sing Sing Chronicles" premiere Saturday, November 23rd at 9pm ET, and the final two episodes air Sunday, November 24th at 9pm ET on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Hi there, letters from Sing Sing listeners. It's Dan Slepian. If you listen to the podcast, you know about
0:05.9	J.J. Velasquez and my decades-long investigation into his wrongful conviction. What you may not know
0:11.9	is that I also followed several other innocent men who were incarcerated at Sing. And I'm excited
0:17.3	to share that there's a new four-part documentary series coming out about
0:21.4	their stories. It's called The Sing Sing Chronicles, and it airs on MSNBC on November 23rd and 24th
0:29.9	at 9 p.m. Eastern. The series is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter, and it builds on the more
0:36.3	than 20 years of filming I did at
0:38.3	Sing Sing. Over a thousand hours of video while I investigated these cases. Here's an
0:43.6	exclusive preview from the Sing Sing Chronicles.
0:52.7	It was right after 9-11.
0:55.0	The NYPD were the heroes of the city, the rock stars of the country.
1:00.0	And I thought, maybe I can have access to the NYPD to follow these detectives as they investigate homicides.
1:08.0	I was embedded with Bronx homicide detectives. Let's come down and open the door.
1:12.6	Bobby Adlerado and his partner, John Schwartz.
1:15.6	This is a crime scene.
1:16.6	See, you've been a cop a long time.
1:18.6	Almost 20 years.
1:19.6	This is the twilight of your career.
1:20.6	Paul's in life.
1:21.6	I walked into that building so young,
1:24.6	eager, so unbelievably naive.
1:30.3	These were tough guys, and I was ready, you know,
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