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Hey, listeners, I want to tell you about a podcast

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we hope you'll enjoy. It's called Suspect,

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Five Shots in the Dark. I'm one of the

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hosts, Matt Scher. In the latest

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season, alongside co-host Laura Bazelon,

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we look at a case with two victims, one

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murdered in cold blood and one in prison

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for a crime he did not commit.

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The podcast follows Leon Benson's story,

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a man who spent more than half of his

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life, a total of 24 years,

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in an Indiana State prison for the murder

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of Casey Shane, a man he never

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met.

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Casey was murdered in the middle of an August night,

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shot point blank while idling in his Dodge

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pickup truck in North Indianapolis.

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There was no physical evidence, no

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known motive, and no one coming forward

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with information, except one woman

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who swears to this day she saw Leon

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Detroit Benson pull the trigger. Leon

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was sentenced to 60 years in prison, all

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because one person swore they saw something.

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But

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what if that person was wrong?

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From Wondery and Campside Media comes Season 3

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of the hit podcast Suspect.

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This is a story of a botched police investigation,

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the dangers of shaky eyewitness testimony,

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and a community who feared law enforcement,

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with good reason.

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I'm about to play you a clip from Suspect, Five

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Shots in the Dark. While you're listening, follow

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Suspect wherever you get your podcasts.

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You can binge Suspect ad-free on Wondery+.

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Find Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or

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on Apple Podcasts.

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A long time ago, I remember watching an

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episode of Oprah about eyewitness

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testimony. I actually haven't been able to find

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the episode in question online. This

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would have been like three decades ago, when

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I was a kid, home from school, watching

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TV.

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It's entirely possible I imagined parts

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of it. But in my memory, Oprah,

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without telling anyone, has this guy run

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on stage and snatch up a purse belonging

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to one of the panelists.

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or on Apple

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Podcasts.