Suspect

By: Wondery | Campside
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  • Suspect is an investigative series about mislaid justice and the kinds of weighty decisions that detectives, lawyers, and jurors make every day - decisions that, once made, are almost impossible to reverse.

    Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark follows Leon Benson, who 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.

    Binge all episodes of Suspect exclusively and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting www.wondery.com/links/suspect/ now.

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  • Introducing: Suspect

    Introducing: Suspect
    Aug 17 2021

    An apartment complex hosts a big Halloween party with themed rooms and costumed partygoers. By the end of the night one of the party’s hosts is murdered. And the partygoers are the main suspects in the eyes of the police: was it the guy in the devil mask, the guy dressed as Jesus, the bank robber, the construction worker? As a complex investigation winds its way through forensic evidence, witness testimony, DNA, and even a psychic, the police zero in on one suspect in particular -- but why? From Campside Media and Wondery, the makers of Chameleon and the Shrink Next Door, comes SUSPECT. Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Over My Dead Body) return to the scene of the crime to uncover what happened, and speak with everyone about a party that still haunts them a decade later. It’s a series about cutting-edge science and mislaid justice, race and policing, and the kinds of weighty choices that cops and prosecutors make every day. Choices that, once made, are difficult to reverse.

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    3 mins
  • The Halloween Party | S1-E1

    The Halloween Party | S1-E1
    Aug 31 2021

    The residents of the Valley View apartments organize a big costume party. Strangers come together. They argue and fight. They dance and drink. At times the party veers out of control. And when they wake up the next morning, one resident is dead.


    Binge all episodes of Suspect exclusively and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting www.wondery.com/links/suspect/ now.

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    34 mins
  • Introducing Suspect Season 2: Vanished in the Snow

    Introducing Suspect Season 2: Vanished in the Snow
    Oct 10 2022

    For nearly three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. The President of the United States appealed to journalists to help. Jonelle’s smiling face was printed on milk cartons nationwide. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end. Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s remains were unearthed near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. With the discovery came troubling new questions: a man obsessed with the case also be her abductor and murderer? Had the truth been hiding in plain sight the entire time? From Campside Media and Wondery comes season two of SUSPECT. Former CNN reporter Ashley Fantz and executive producers Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson (Suspect, Over My Dead Body) dig into one of the most mind-bending cold cases in modern history, in an attempt to separate fact and fiction, compulsion from guilt, and true-crime fandom from a motive for murder.


    You can binge all episodes of Suspect Season 2, Vanished in the Snow ad-free on Wondery+. Find Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.

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    3 mins

Featured Article: Challenging Racial Bias in True Crime Stories


In cases involving Black and Brown victims, the reporting of true crime is its own kind of injustice. Bad things happen to Black and Brown women every day. But no one is talking about the color of their hair and eyes, their job, their education, or how much they are loved by family and community. Discover a growing gamut of podcasts that runs from deep-dive single case investigations to compilations focusing on missing and murdered Black women.

Featured Article Challenging Racial Bias in True Crime Stories

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Matthew Shaer does an awesome job with his reporting, interviewing, putting key pieces together in a very thorough way. Fascinating, thought provoking, beautiful and sad story. i will not give it away.

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Shocking great news podcast

Best new true crime podcast, so smooth and entertaining with REAL info and interviews. I’m so impressed with this particular on. I am a court junkie fiend and this is just so detailed and professional, calm voice keeps you enthralled

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Danged Good

Really good, straightforward storytelling with no giggling. Also a story I’ve never heard about before. Excellent.

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Indepth & Eye-opening

Thorough reporting. I'm unsure why a review would say it's opinion, it's clearly not. I heard law enforcement's own interviews.
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This season was heart breaking. Emanuel & Arpana were both failed by a flawed, biased justice system.

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Very well done, interesting from the start

I truly enjoyed this podcast. It covered all the potential suspects, and brought out some of the problems with our judicial system and the possible overuse of dna evidence. You won’t be disappointed.

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Season Three! Incredible!

Season Three turns from the whodunnit to who saw it and an examination of the cracks that can exist in eyewitness testimony. From conviction to exoneration, Suspect captivates!

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Couldn't Stop Listening

The story was well told while being respectful and engaging. It was a story I had never heard before and I appreciate the balance of detail and interest.

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Outstanding

Despite not having a clear answer to who was responsible for Arpana's death, this podcast is an example of outstanding journalism, research, and storytelling. Very well written and executed.

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So infuriating

I'm only on episode 4 but listening to that idiot detective talk about why Emanuel became a suspect had me so angry...what an ignorant, stupid man.

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Empathy

I found this to be a really well structured and well told narrative, and I felt empathetic towards all involved. I didn’t feel as though there was any “race spin” but that I was hearing the facts of a tragic story. It left me enraged and haunted.

To the reviewer who commented that they could do without the “narrator’s empathy,” I mean woof. A good narrator would have empathy/connection to the story they are telling. Having increased empathy for one another is the goal, so if you find yourself desiring to hear less of it I would question why that is?

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