In 1995, Detective Tony Richardson was trying to figure out who killed a fellow officer.

The case comes down to who is believed and who is ignored.

Oh my goodness, we did connect to Innocent Man.

I'm Beth Shelburn from Lava for Good Podcasts.

This is Ear Witness.

Welcome to Ear Witness on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts.

Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

on our favorite show.

We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett, posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where

each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from the past that shaped us and probably you

to try to understand what it taught us about the world and our place in it.

You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

Listen to In retrospect on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find

your favorite shows.

We're supposed to learn from our own mistakes that other people's errors can be instructive

too, from efforts to control the weather that went disastrously awry to the untimely

death of the Segway Boss.

History is a treasure trove, mishaps and meltdowns that can teach us all.

I'm Tim Halford, host of cautionary tales, the podcast that mines the greatest fiascoes

of the past for their most valuable lessons.

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