Podcast: Radio Atlantic

Listen to the 90 minute, three-part Radio Atlantic series, which explores Spencer’s story.

Part 1: No Way Out
A Texas man who was convicted of murder in 1987 without any physical evidence spent his time in prison building a case to prove his innocence. Listen to his story—including new exculpatory evidence gathered by Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s investigation—on the first installment of a new Radio Atlantic series.

February 2018 | Radio Atlantic

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Part 2: Who Killed Jeffrey Young? 
In the second episode of ‘No Way Out’ for Radio Atlantic, Barbara explores an alternate theory of the crime. She talks with friends of another man who they say boasted about committing it. Their story, coupled with the shoddiness of the evidence that convicted Spencer, was enough to secure a recommendation that Spencer be given a new trial, “on the grounds of actual innocence.”
February 2018 | Radio Atlantic
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Part 3: How Innocence Becomes Irrelevant 
For the final installment of ‘No Way Out,’ for Radio Atlantic Barbara looks at how the story of Benjamine Spencer shows a legal system that prefers naming someone guilty over figuring out who really is.
February 2018 | Radio Atlantic
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