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After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, two innocent men were convicted and were in prison for decades. Meanwhile the real killer remained free. Today I'm talking to Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington about their fantastic book, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South.   Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4gF2K18  See more information on my books: katewinklerdawson.com   Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @wickedwordspod (Facebook) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Instagram)   2024 All Rights Reserved  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just how strong are the forces arrayed against police reform — and how far are they willing to go? In April 2019, Keith Humphrey was appointed police chief in Little Rock, Arkansas, a Southern city with a fraught history of racial division. Among the growing number of Black police chiefs, Humphrey came in with a mandate from the new mayor to implement reforms and curtail abuses. Almost as quickly as he set about to do that work, the city's “old guard,” the police union, and even cops under Humphrey's own command struck back. The aim, to many observers, was simple: to oust Humphrey.This week on Intercepted: Radley Balko joins The Intercept's Ali Gharib to talk about Humphrey's ordeal. Then Balko speaks to Little Rock civil rights attorney Mike Laux and former LRPD Lieut. Johnny Gilbert Jr. Balko, an award-winning journalist and columnist at the Washington Post, is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces” and co-author, with Tucker Carrington, of “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South.”If you'd like to support our work, go to theintercept.com/join — your donation, no matter what the amount, makes a real difference. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Dewey Like Murder?, Denice and Dawn talk about The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko and Trail of Blood: a Father, a Son, and a Tell-Tale Crime Scene by Wanda Evans. Opening and ending theme is El Horror Sucesivo del Vacio by Guerra de Cerdos

Advances in technology, such as DNA testing, have changed the way that crimes are solved. DNA technology can not only help prove when people are guilty of crimes, but also prove when innocent people have been wrongfully convicted. Finding patterns in wrongful convictions has also uncovered huge corruption within law enforcement. Washington Post Journalist and winner of the 2017 Bastiat Award, Radley Balko, writes about criminal justice, the drug war, and civil liberties, and he recently wrote "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South": a book detailing a shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives. I chatted to Radley about this at the Freecoast Festival.

On today’s Gist, why the YouTube shooter’s use of a handgun doesn’t take anything away from arguments to outlaw the AR-15. Plus, Radley Balko tells the story of two men who put innocent Mississippians behind bars using junk science and pseudo-expert testimony. Balko is the co-author, along with Tucker Carrington, of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South. In the Spiel, why the Roseanne reboot isn’t harmful pop culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Gist, why the YouTube shooter’s use of a handgun doesn’t take anything away from arguments to outlaw the AR-15. Plus, Radley Balko tells the story of two men who put innocent Mississippians behind bars using junk science and pseudo-expert testimony. Balko is the co-author, along with Tucker Carrington, of The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South. In the Spiel, why the Roseanne reboot isn’t harmful pop culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel's guest this week is Chuck Marohn who recaps a recent trip to Massachusetts and discusses his article today on autonomous vehicles. MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: April 3 event in Colorado Springs, CO Automated vehicles will makes our streets worse by Chuck Marohn The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington If you have a recommendation for a podcast guest, hit up Rachel at quednau@strongtowns.org

Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington join us to discuss forensic science and the criminal justice system. We also discuss structural racism, Mississippi’s inadequate death investigation system and the relationships between police, prosecutors and forensic scientists.Further Readings/References:The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American SouthThe Changing Role of Criminal Law - Free Thoughts Podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For nearly two decades, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West were the go-to experts that Mississippi law enforcement and prosecutors relied on when there was a potential homicide. Haynes performed the bulk of the autopsies in the state, while West was a dentist who touted his skill in bite-mark analysis. But after years of investigations and countless testimonies from the men, their claims of expertise began to fall apart–and wrongful convictions began coming to light. In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington lay out how the state’s legal system aided and abetted the use of flawed forensic evidence; how systemic racism influenced Mississippi’s coroner system; and the stories of some of the innocent people whose lives were derailed. Carrington, the founding director of the Mississippi Innocence Project and Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law, joins the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles for this episode of the Modern Law Library.

For nearly two decades, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West were the go-to experts that Mississippi law enforcement and prosecutors relied on when there was a potential homicide. Haynes performed the bulk of the autopsies in the state, while West was a dentist who touted his skill in bite-mark analysis. But after years of investigations and countless testimonies from the men, their claims of expertise began to fall apart–and wrongful convictions began coming to light. In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington lay out how the state’s legal system aided and abetted the use of flawed forensic evidence; how systemic racism influenced Mississippi’s coroner system; and the stories of some of the innocent people whose lives were derailed. Carrington, the founding director of the Mississippi Innocence Project and Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law, joins the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles for this episode of the Modern Law Library.

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Don't Call Me Princess, All the Names They Used for God, Baby Monkey, Private Eye, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by Dreadful Young Girls and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill and ThirdLove. Books discussed on the show: All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good by Emma Gray Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick and David Serlin This Could Hurt by Jillian Medoff The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by Nova Jacobs Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb What we're reading this week: MEM by Bethany C. Morrow A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle More books out this week: A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller Where I Live by Brenda Rufener People Like Us by Dana Mele Eat the Apple by Matt Young A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals by Alyssa Cole The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked by Brian Evenson Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. by Beverly Bond The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) by Sayantani DasGupta The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington Chicago by David Mamet How to Think Like a Cat by Stephane Garnier Green Sun by Kent Anderson The Hush by John Hart Winter Sisters by Robin Oliveira Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman Summer Hours at the Robbers Library: A Novel by Sue Halpern The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer The Sea Beast Takes a Lover: Stories by Michael Andreasen There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus The Listener by Robert McCammon The Misfits Club by Kieran Crowley Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin (paperback)

Staff writer Amanda Haggard talks to journalist Radley Balko, who investigated the work of a Mississippi medical examiner named Steven Hayne, along with his dentistry sidekick Michael West. Balko discusses Hayne’s history and impact, which is darkly fascinating, as he testified in close to 80 percent of homicide trials in Mississippi for 20 years – often employing shoddy reasoning and pseudoscience. Balko will be releasing a book detailing the full story at the end of February, titled 'The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South.'