Update and Jennifer Thompson ReRelease
The Knife: A True Crime Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Patia and Hannah share a behind-the-scenes update. Then, one of our favorite episodes from the archives - A Wrongful Conviction. Jennifer Thompson was a college student when a man broke into her home and sexually assaulted her. Jennifer did her best to help law enforcement capture her assailant, but years later would learn the wrong person had been held responsible.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:06.0 | This story contains adult content and language. |
| 0:09.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:11.2 | The claims and opinions in this podcast are those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent the knife or exactly right media. |
| 0:22.6 | Hi, Pasha. |
| 0:23.7 | Hey, Hannah. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, it has been a week. |
| 0:26.8 | It has been a week, and it has been a morning. |
| 0:30.0 | It really has. |
| 0:31.2 | We have an update for you. |
| 0:33.1 | To start it off, I'll just say we had an episode that was going to come out this week. |
| 0:37.3 | We were really excited about week. We were really |
| 0:38.2 | excited about it. We worked really hard on it and felt really strongly about it. But we have hit a major |
| 0:44.7 | roadblock. Yeah. So what happened is we were working on a, you know, I guess you call it like a |
| 0:51.4 | partially wrongful conviction story. A man who in his early 20s in the 1990s was convicted on multiple charges, one of those, including the murder of a young woman. |
| 1:05.3 | And it was he and his friend who were both charged with the murder, among other charges related to what happened |
| 1:13.6 | that night. And so in 2002, it came out that the person who he was with that night took full |
| 1:22.1 | responsibility for the murder, which is what had been his story all along. Right. And then in 2008, |
| 1:32.0 | there was an evidentiary hearing where he went on record and said it. |
| 1:35.8 | And so since 2008, this person who we were doing this story about. |
| 1:41.4 | Who was convicted of first degree murder and had always said, you know, admitted that he was there, |
| 1:44.3 | but that he actually didn't participate in the murder at all, |
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