Hey, this is Jason Moon. Thanks for listening to Bear Brook Season 2, a true crime story from

NHPR's document team. This is the last episode of this series, for now. As you're about to hear,

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And while you're there, you can catch up on season one.

It's about a totally different case from New Hampshire, though you might recognize some of the

same people and places from this series. It's about another mystery that starts in the woods of

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And thanks for listening.

Previously on Bear Brook Season 2, a true crime story.

To cut you a break would utterly undermine the public's confidence in the criminal justice system.

How do you prove something?

How do you prove and I didn't do it?

There's this belief that when you are a Catholic, the priest gives you communion,

that the bread turns into the body of Jesus, like a literal human flesh.

This is essentially the same thing as what happens. Once this conviction happens, it's like that story is what happened.

All I could think of was remember the TV detective Kojak.

The system, the culture that our detectives live in and are made to operate in,

sets them up for this specific kind of failure of not being able to realize that there's an innocent person in front of them.

... It's been seven years since Jason Carroll first wrote a letter to the New England Innocence Project.

Neep, as it's called, is a small non-profit, only about a dozen people on staff.

And for the first three years after Jason wrote, they didn't even have an attorney based in

New Hampshire who could work on his case full time. Then, Neep hired Cynthia Muso. Jason's case was on the top of the pile in her desk

...