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Podcast: Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Episode: Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom - Brendan Dassey Re-Release
Description: This is a re-release of an episode that originally aired on October 2, 2019.
In 2006, 16 year old Wisconsin special education student Brendan Dassey gave a videotaped confession to the murder of a young woman named Teresa Halbach. Brendan recanted his confession immediately, but was still convicted and sentenced to life in prison even though there was no evidence connecting him to the crime and the confession is widely recognized as false and coerced. In this episode, Laura Nirider, acclaimed attorney and host of Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions, arranges Brendan Dassey's only interview from behind bars with Jason Flom. Listen i...