Conviction

One night back in the late 1970s, an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pulled over a suspected drunk driver. When he walked up to the vehicle, he came face-to-face with a ghost from his past: a residential school priest. That officer was journalist Connie Walker’s late father. What happened that night on the side of the road compelled her to return home to Saskatchewan nearly 40 years la...

A new update in the story of Melvin Quinney, a father accused of being a satanic cult leader and sent to prison in 1991. For years he’s been fighting for justice for himself and his family. And now we finally have news about Melvin’s legal battle for exoneration.

Max B’s new legal team tries to get him out of his 75-year sentence, using a tactic that rarely works. But it's the best chance Max will get unless he wants to die in prison.

Max goes to trial, and everything is on the line.

The cops come after Max B, and the clock is ticking.

Max cooked up an easy score — in and out, no one gets hurt. But it doesn’t go down that way.

Max B is a famous rapper in Harlem. Until one night changes his life.

Max B is a Harlem rapper on the brink of stardom. One night he gets wind of a bag full of cash that’s sitting in an empty hotel room, and he starts scheming. It would be an easy score – in and out, no one gets hurt. But it doesn’t go down like that. It all ends in chaos, kidnapping and a dead body.

In 1995, a man a named Barry Jones was sentenced to death for a terrible crime: sexual assault and murder of a four-year-old girl named Rachel Gray. But, over the next nearly two decades, the legs holding up the case against Barry Jones started to wobble. In part two of our story, a team of federal public defenders fight to prove that Barry Jones should never have been convicted in the first place....

The story of Barry Jones starts the way a lot of crime stories do: with an alleged murder off a dusty highway in Tucson, Arizona. And for years, the story of this crime seemed familiar. A terrible tragedy followed by an investigation, a trial and then a conviction. But all of that changed earlier this year, when the United States Supreme Court took up Barry’s case, and came out with a decision that...

When John Quinney was ten years old, he helped get his father convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. But a lot has happened in the three decades since he got on the witness stand. In this update episode, we take you inside the courtroom as John recants his testimony and tries to get his dad exonerated.

We learn about the rumors that have been circulating about Nuseiba’s disappearance. And Habiba finds out the truth about why so many people have stayed quiet for so many years about what happened to Nuseiba. Also, an unexpected person reaches out to Habiba following the release of the episodes.

Habiba pieces together what police were looking for as they searched a 55-acre farm outside Hamilton and she persuades a family member who's stayed silent until now to talk.

Habiba gets her hands on a new document that reveals the once-hidden details about the investigation into Nuseiba’s disappearance.

Habiba discovers a dramatic series of events leading up to Nuseiba giving up her daughter. Also, she learns more about the person who Nuseiba once told the police had “strangled” her.

Habiba discovers the consequences Nuseiba faced after her call to Children's Aid.

Habiba learns about a key moment that likely changed the course of Nuseiba’s life. And a surprising visit from a SWAT team.

Habiba sits down with key people in the investigation and gets two wildly different theories about what happened to Nuseiba.

A cryptic email arrives urging investigative journalist Habiba Nosheen to look into the disappearance of a woman named Nuseiba Hasan.

Investigative journalist Habiba Nosheen finds herself reading a cryptic email about the disappearance of a woman named Nuseiba Hasan. As she investigates, Habiba finds eerie parallels between her life and the life of this missing woman. Those parallels fuel her determination to unravel the mystery of Nuseiba Hasan, a 26 year old woman, who one day, just vanished.

Nobody seems to know what happened to Nuseiba Hasan. She’s a Jordanian-Canadian woman, who, in 2006, suddenly vanished without a trace. That is until someone from her past resurfaced, searching for justice. For the last three years, investigative journalist Habiba Nosheen has been trying to find out what happened to Nuseiba. But some people want the truth to stay hidden.

After 23 years, John comes face to face with his father Melvin.

More than a decade after the first allegations of satanic ritual abuse in California, the Satanic Panic was mostly snuffed out. The nation began to move on. But the children at the heart of it were just beginning to reckon with their past.

In the summer of 1991, Melvin Quinney was put on trial. The prime witness against him: his own son, John.

Back in Texas, after Debbie Quinney accused her husband of abusing his children and leading a satanic cult, their children were placed in a shelter. Not long after this, nine-year-old John Quinney entered a controversial form of psychotherapy that was hugely popular in the 1980s. Today, he thinks that therapy might have brainwashed him.

By 1985, California was fully engulfed in a panic. People were convinced that there was an underground network of satanists abusing children right under their noses, and everyone was a suspect. Children who were taken away for questioning often didn't return. Parents, friends, and neighbors were arrested without evidence to support the charges. In the midst of this frenzy, one family packed their b...

In the 1980s, protecting the safety of children became a paramount concern. It was the one issue that could unite even the most disparate factions of society, from radical leftists to Christian conservatives. But the movement to protect children quickly morphed into an all-consuming panic that pushed parents, therapists, and police to view all children as victims—even if the children claimed otherw...

We trace the roots of the Satanic Panic back to a strange Canadian memoir, Michelle Remembers. In it, a woman named Michelle describes satanic rituals she was forced to participate in as a child. She “recovered” these memories with the help of her psychotherapist, who coined the term ritual abuse. In this episode, we track how the idea of satanic ritual abuse jumped from the pages of a suspicious b...

In 1989, nine-year-old John Quinney accused his father Melvin of being a satanic cult leader and abusing him in satanic rituals. His father vehemently denied the charges. It was a case that tore their family apart. But what none of them knew was that they were just one of dozens of families going through the same nightmare.

When John Quinney was ten years old, he took the stand to testify against his own father. He had come to believe that his dad Melvin was the murderous leader of a satanic cult. It would be decades before John would learn that his family was just one of many swept up in a panic that gripped America in the 1980s—one in which hundreds of people were accused of taking part in underground satanic cults ...

Pedro’s trial date finally arrives, and Manny sets out on another quest. Will he finally push the envelope too far?

Manny takes some big risks that could get Pedro’s case dismissed—or could get Pedro into even deeper trouble.

Manny’s quest to free Pedro isn’t just about justice. It’s payback.

Terrell believes that Manny and his clients are out to destroy his career. But they aren’t the only ones sounding alarms about Terrell.

Manny meets a key witness. Saki meets Manny’s nemesis.

Pedro gets pushed to take a plea deal. Manny goes on a quest to find the one young man who can free him.

Private Investigator Manuel Gomez takes on the biggest case of his career: the case of Pedro Hernandez.