Crime and Prejudice

Shortly after 1 AM, Officer Anthony Liance of the Chicago police department, responded to an urgent call that a man had been shot in Washington State Park...

This is the setting for our case today: the height of the Iraqi war, a hardened war yet caring war veteran in Major Galvin leading his platoon of commandos in Afghanistan, and an ambush.

To study the original case records of the Lafayette Bar shooting is to travel a winding path of perplexing questions and tiny bits of facts that have been construed into myth with evidence that was never challenged contributing to the mystery. One thing is for certain, however, the shooting at the bar and grill had been very, very quick...

After his release in 1961 from prison, 24-year-old Rubin Carter worked to turn his life around pursuing a career as a professional boxer leading to a short yet successful career before it was tragically cut short when on June 17th, 1966 he became involved in an infamous shooting at a bar in New Jersey resulting in the death of a bartender and two customers.

A case without a motive, no care for hiding the body, no regard for the public attention, an attack right in the heart of the city; the blueprint of a serial killer, except for one crucial mistake, the victim lived, and survived to tell the tale...

To this day, Rush Medical College can proudly claim over 10,000 physicians. It was to this bright future and promising college education in which tragically, Lori Roscetti's life, filled with promise, ambition, and self-achievement would be tragically cut short in a horrible saga leading to the arrest of the Roscetti four.

Despite the simplicity of the crimes and the apparent disposition residents of the Ida B Wells complex were subjected to, things were even more ominous than anyone could have imagined....

In 1982, Buffalo City experienced a heinous rape in its beloved nature reserve. Police force desperately tried to catch the rapist by posing as hikers, with a police officer, who was a karate expert, posed as a woman but with fruitless attempts at catching the rapist red-handed, a frustrated Police Commissioner assigned Mike McCarthy, a tough nosed officer from the Street Crime unit to find the dubbed Tift Farm rapist.

The crack cocaine epidemic hit record high proportions from 1989 to 1991 where nearly 500 dealers were indicted by the federal, state, and local authorities and on January 17th, 1988 a 22-year-old was caught in a tragic accident during the escalation of this drug epidemic...

Welcome to Crime and Prejudice - a new podcast that will walk you through some of the most horrifying and though provoking casefiles gone wrong in America.  From murders to rapes and improper interrogations, this podcast focuses on pitfalls of the criminal justice system within the true crime genre.   This introduction gives you a little bit of background into the criminal justice system and identifies the catalyst that led to the justice system's current pathologies.  Finally, you'll learn about why a college kid in the middle nowhere Pennsylvania is producing a true crime podcast. Stay in tune for Casefile 1 of Crime and Prejudice - Exoneree: Andrew Swainson To subscribe, go to:    http://crimeandprejudice.com/