Criminal

He's the author of Just Mercy.

The Equal Justice Initiative was founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson. He's the author of Just Mercy.

We've now, I just won the release of a man a year ago who was the 156th person exonerated, released from death row after being proven innocent.

That means that for every nine people we've executed in this country, we've now identified one innocent person on death row.

It is a shameful rate of error.

Your grandfather was murdered. That's right.

When my grandfather, when I was 16, my grandfather was stabbed to death in Philadelphia by several young men who broke into his apartment to try to steal a TV.

Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn's book isVictim F.

Victim F from crime victims to suspects to survivors.

They write, to all the many other victims and survivors out there, we have been fueled and inspired by all of your strength and bravery. This is our humble attempt to pay it forward.

Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn's book is Victim F.

And it eventually said that they were going to drug us, we were going to take it orally, but if we refused, they would inject it.

He said you know Aaron did go to the police, it's being covered in the media, but you know, it doesn't really worry us because it'd be good PR for our group to show that they're capable of of fulfilling you know an operation like this and could still release the victim quote unquote unharmed.

You can read more about Denise and Erin's story in Victim F.

I've also read books like Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Mysterious Affair at Stiles by Agatha Christie.

I started reading Agatha Christie's first published novel, The Mysterious Affair at Stiles, and I thought maybe I could read it to you.

So here we go. The Mysterious Affair at Stiles by Agatha Christie, chapter one, I go to Stiles.

The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as the Stiles case has now somewhat subsided.

Lots of nonsense written though. Criminal discovered in last chapter, everyone dumbfounded, real crime, you'd know at once.

Not in a case of poisoning, Mrs. Cavendish's clear voice startled me. Dr. Bowerstein was saying yesterday that, owing to the general ignorance of the more uncommon poisons among the medical profession, there were probably countless cases of poisoning quite unsuspected.

Her favorite Christie is the first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920.

It's about a murdered heiress, and it introduced the world to a private detective with a very famous mustache, Hercule Poirot.

The Times Literary Supplement wrote, the only fault this story has is that it's almost too ingenious.

Author and former paramedic Kevin Hazard.

And they're excited, they're impressed, they're blown away by what's being said, but they're also under the impression that there's no way this revolution includes them, they've got people who are under or unemployed, people who did not finish high school. They don't think that there's any way that Saffer will allow his first class to be all people from the hill.

We'll also have a link to Kevin Hazard's book, American Sirens, the incredible story of the black men who became America's first paramedics.

Author and former paramedic Kevin Hazard.

You can see them at thisiscriminal.com, where we'll also have a link to Kevin Hazard's book, American Sirens, the incredible story of the black men who became America's first paramedics.

Author and former paramedic Kevin Hazard.

Kevin Hazard told us a story about a teenager named Mitch Brown whose mother collapsed in their house.

And we'll also have a link to Kevin Hazard's book American Sirens, the incredible story of the Black men who became America's first paramedics.

Michael wrote a book about his experience on September 11th. It's called Thunderdog, the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero.

Michael wrote a book about his experience on September 11th. It's called Thunderdog, the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero.

Michael wrote a book about his experience on September 11th. It's called Thunder Dog, the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero.

I've also read books like Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Mysterious Affair at Stiles by Agatha Christie.

If you're a fan of Arthur Conan Doyle's books, you might enjoy Phoebe Reads a Mystery. It's a podcast where I read classic novels to you, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

I mean even Patricia Heismith wrote a novel in the early 70s, A dog's ransom that was about the kidnapping of a poodle was like the initiating action.

But obviously ransom did not factor into this.

But obviously ransom did not factor into this. I mean, there's a chance he was sold on the black market. Ali Khan. In some way, possibly. And this was a problem before the new problem emerged, which was puppy mills. But this was something that would happen for people who wanted a purebred dog. I mean, the value of the dog is knowing who the dog is and asserting who this dog is. I mean, he was kidnapped at the height of his beauty and manhood, according to Pulaski. But when he was kidnapped, he was considered the most famous offscreen dog, like the most famous dog who wasn't on a Hollywood star, who wasn't Rin Tin Tin or Lassie. And if you can't say this is him, then I don't know where the where the value is. But I mean, it seems very feasible that you just start cutting that dog differently. And who's ever going to know its masterpiece? I mean, the dog could just be could have just like lived out his days in Staten Island as a domesticated pet. I mean, there's just I mean, there's no telling.

Even Patricia Highsmith wrote a novel in the early 70s, A dog's ransom. That was about the kidnapping of a poodle was like the initiating action.

It includes books like Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which became the first ever book to sell more than a million e-book copies.

And in 2005, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo took over the world.

Writer Thomas McNamee says Wolf 10 was the very definition of an alpha male.

As Thomas McNamee puts it, all hell broke loose.

Thomas McNamee says that in Yellowstone, the elk population exploded.

You can read more about Wolf 10 in Thomas McNamee's book The Killing of Wolf Number 10.

As Thomas McNamee puts it, all hell broke loose.

In Yellowstone, the elk population exploded. The vegetation they needed to survive couldn't keep up.

And in 1947, the famous naturalist Aldo Leopold recognized that the Yellowstone ecosystem was missing its Keystone predator.

And you can read more about Wolf 10 in Thomas McNamee's book, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten.

A few months after he published the first article he published a second one with two of the remaining three photographs and in 1922 Conan Doyle published a book about the whole investigation that he called The Coming of the Fairies

In 1922, Conan Doyle published a book about the whole investigation that he called The Coming of the Fairies.

Frances had a copy of Princess Mary's Gift Book and it contained poems stories and illustrations of leading writers and artists of the day interestingly there's a story in there by Conan Doyle that he contributed to this but there is a poem by Alfred Noyes called A Spell for a Fairy with illustrations by Claude A. Sheperson and if we open this up and go towards the end you'll see three dancing fairy figures and it was these figures that Elsie based the fairies for the first photograph she took with Frances on so if you compare these you'll see that she's added wings she's taken away some of the drapery from them and they've spaced the figures out but the poses and particularly the fashionable Parisian hairstyles are more or less the same really the same yeah yeah yeah absolutely I mean if you compare them they're I've got wings and a few changes to the dresses the girls attached the cut out fairy drawings to hat pins to make them stand up in the grass here's Elsie we with the the long hat pin put it down down the back like that and stuck the tape at the back like that and then gradually wormed that down and then wormed that down into the earth.

It was of three dancing fairies and it looked almost exactly like a photograph he'd seen before. The first photograph, Elsie, had taken of the fairies.

...the positions are much the same, but then positions are always much the same when people are dancing.

It contained poems, stories and illustrations of leading writers and artists of the day. Interestingly, there's a story in there by Arthur Conan Doyle and that he contributed to this.

But there is a poem by Alfred Noyes called A Spell for a Fairy with illustrations by Claude A. Sheperson.

And if we open this up and go towards the end, you'll see three dancing fairy figures.

You know, you ought to talk to this guy. This is the guy who took down Al Capone, he says. It was very dangerous. He's got stories to tell.

I couldn't believe this mild-mannered guy had anything to do with it.

It was dangerous.

You should write a book.

He died hoping that the book would be a success but believing himself to be a forgotten figure.

you know, you ought to talk to this guy. This is the guy who took down Al Capone, he says. It was very dangerous. He's got stories to tell.

I couldn't believe this mild-mannered guy had anything to do with it.

it was dangerous.

you should write a book.

He died hoping that the book would be a success but believing himself to be a forgotten figure.

Learn more about Elliot Ness in Daniel Stashower's book American Demon, Elliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper. We'll have a link in the show notes.

Learn more about Elliot Ness in Daniel Stashower's book American Demon, Elliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper.

Gary Weiss' book is Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie.

Author and journalist Gary Weiss.

Gary Weiss says Eddie got around the law by buying electronics from a place in the Bronx called Corner Distributors.

Gary Weiss says, you could buy overnight commercial slots for as little as $10.

Gary Weiss writes that he loved to give interviews to the press. He encouraged the media's nickname for him, Easy.

Gary Weiss' book is Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie.

The book is Retell Gangster,

the insane real-life story of Crazy Eddie.

Kind of like a concierge, kind of like Tom Hagen, the lawyer on The Godfather.

John's wife and son, Julie and Marcus McSorley wrote a book about Reg's trip. It's called Out of the Box, The Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler.

John's wife and son, Julie and Marcus McSorley, wrote a book about Reg's trip. It's called "Out of the Box, The Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler."

In the days leading up to the show, mysterious ads appeared in local newspapers saying things like, What will happen on February 12th?

And there were stories about sightings of flying saucers near Quito.

Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars.

The nation as a whole continues to face the danger of incomplete, misunderstood news over a medium which has yet to prove that it is competent to perform the news job.

What time will it be the end of the world?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most terrifying thing I've ever witnessed. Wait a minute. Someone's crawling out of something I can see, coming out of that black hole through luminous disks.

This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen. Out of character to assure you that The War of the Worlds has no further significance than if the holiday offering it was intended to be, a Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying boo.

So goodbye everybody and remember please for the next day or so the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian. It's Halloween.

April White's book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

April White's book is The Divorce Colony, how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier.

You can see them at thisiscriminal.com, where we'll also have a link to April White's book. It's called The Divorce Colony, How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier.

And the irony for me is that this community where this crime took place, where this trial took place, is the very same community where Harper Lee grew up and wrote the beloved American novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

And people in that community love To Kill a Mockingbird. They put on plays about it. They name streets after characters. They have stores named after it. They've dedicated a museum to it.

But they were completely indifferent to the plight of an innocent black man being wrongly convicted and condemned.