Suspect: Five Shots in the Dark

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories turned out to be wrong? And what if the people who knew what really happened had never been allowed to speak? Suspect Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark is the story of two victims: one murdered, one sentenced to life. Follow host Matt Shaer and attorney Lara Bazelon as they investigate how the justice system failed both Leon and Kasey, and who the real killer might be. Join this unprecedented look inside the attempt to overturn a wrongful conviction and find out if justice will finally be served. Listen to Suspect wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge Suspect ad-free on Wondery Plus. Find Wondery Plus in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts: Wondery.fm/SuspectS3_Pretend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. It's me. How are you tomorrow? I have a brand new episode for you. It's an update
0:11.1	in the stalker series. It's the episode with Dr. Gresman. This is the episode everyone's been
0:17.0	dying to listen to since day one. Because what does she think of all this? Well, I finally had
0:23.3	time to comb through all the audio that the police sent me. And if you want to listen to the close
0:28.7	to raw, unedited stuff, that's on Patreon and pretend plus. But I put it all together so that
0:35.2	you can listen to it here as a full episode on pretend. I know you guys have been dying to know.
0:40.8	If trust me, I've gotten your emails and your tweets. So that's tomorrow. Look out for that. But
0:47.2	today I want to tell you about one of my favorite podcasts and they have a brand new season called
0:52.8	Suspect Five Shots in the Dark. This latest season looks at a case with two victims, one murdered
0:59.0	in cold blood and one imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. It follows the story of a man named
1:04.8	Leon Benson, who spent half of his life a total of 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the
1:10.9	murder of Casey Shane. A man he never even met. Casey was murdered in the middle of an August
1:17.4	night shot point blank while idling in his Dodge pickup truck in northern Indianapolis.
1:22.7	There was no physical evidence, no known motives, no one coming forward with any information except
1:29.1	for one woman who swears to this day that she saw Leon quote Detroit Benson pull the trigger.
1:35.5	He was sentenced to 60 years in prison, all because one person said that they saw something.
1:41.3	But what if she was wrong? From Wendry and Campside Media comes season three of the hit podcast
1:47.3	Suspect. This is the story of a botched police investigation, the dangers of shaky eyewitness
1:53.1	testimony and a community who feared law enforcement. What with good reason? I'm about to play you a
1:59.2	clip of suspect five shots in the dark while you're listening, follow suspect wherever you get
2:04.4	your podcast, wherever you're listening to right now. You can binge suspect, add free on Wendry
2:09.7	Plus, find Wendry Plus in the Wendry app or Apple podcasts. A long time ago, I remember watching
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