Mental Health in the Criminal Justice Sy...

We spoke with journalist Josie Duffy Rice on her new podcast for Pushkin, The Backfire Effect. It covers the murder of Scott Macklem and comes to the conclusion that Temujin Kensu, the man convicted of that crime, is innocent.LISTEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF OUR COVERAGE OF THIS CASE ... Show More

We spoke with journalist Josie Duffy Rice on her new podcast for Pushkin, The Backfire Effect. It covers the murder of Scott Macklem and comes to the conclusion that Temujin Kensu, the man convicted of that crime, is innocent.LISTEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF OUR COVERAGE OF THIS CASE ... Show More

Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares is on trial for the 2012 murder of Faith Hedgepeth in North Carolina.Order our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=97816393692 ... Show More

True Crime Personality and Psychology True Crime Psychology and Personality is a podcast that profiles criminal personalities, discusses personality disorders, and examines real life events from a scientifically informed perspective. Want more mental health content? Check out ou ... Show More

Catherine is treated in a state-run psychiatric hospital after being found incompetent to stand trial. But Troy and others raise questions about whether she’s faking it to avoid accountability.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Was key evidence manipulated to help convict a day care worker of murder? Erin Moriarty reports. 

“What we ask jurors to do is to just absorb all this trauma and just to keep on absorbing it and not process it with anyone. Just hold it in and hold it in and hold it in.” A look at what happens during and after a trial – and how some courts are trying to help jurors. Say hello ... Show More

Why would anyone confess to a crime they didn’t commit? Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin, co-directors at Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions and central figures in the smash hit Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer, introduce themselves, their work, thei ... Show More

The trial begins, but not without fanfare. Initial witnesses leave the jury with more questions than answers. For Karen Read’s defense, this is precisely what they hoped for. Will the prosecution be able to revive their case despite the questionable investigation?See Privacy Poli ... Show More

<p>In 1843, Daniel M’Naghten gunned down another man in broad daylight. But when he was taken to trial things got complicated. His defense argued that he shouldn’t be held fully responsible because he wasn’t in his right mind. However, the courts didn’t know what to do with that ... Show More

While the jury deliberates, Aubrey is left wondering whether or not they took the bait. From the tired “she loved the freak offs” defense, to categorizing Cassie as someone who was ‘All About the Benjamins,’ they continued the victim-blaming during closing arguments. But hear wha ... Show More

What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the first use of the "PMS defense" in this country, back in 1981. What have we learned about the science of PMS since then? Last year, the American Psychiatric Association classified a fo ... Show More