The Patsy
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A new true crime story about innocence, guilt, and the thin line that divides them when you're accused of a crime. The Patsy. Narrated by The West Wing's Joshua Malina. We don't think about journalists being killed in America. But it happens here too. On June 2, 1976, Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, was killed by a car bomb in the parking lot of a hotel in Phoenix.
The Patsy
4d ago
In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname.
Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers (who all say they are innocent!) turned jailhouse-lawyers. In prison they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away. They set out to turn the tables on Scarcella while still in prison. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they would succeed.
Thirty years later, more than 20 people Scarcella helped put away have walked free. In ..read more
The Patsy
3M ago
Hosted by Ben McKenzie (Southland, Gotham). He had an alibi. He didn't have a violent history. And it seemed almost impossible to imagine the crime could have been committed by just one man. But Ronald Trimboli's DNA test, performed in the infancy of DNA testing, was a match. Is it possible he was innocent of the triple murder he was convicted of? IN THE BLOOD presents all the evidence, including evidence jurors were not privy to, and asks you, the audience, for your verdict. All episodes are available now. Look for IN THE BLOOD, from Voyage Media, anywhere you listen to podcasts.
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The Patsy
8M ago
Allegedly returns for Season 2, with 5 new stories of crime, told to you by the people who lived them, brought to life by actor portrayals and original music - a college student unwittingly indoctrinated into a sex cult posing as a church group, an wealthy old man preyed upon by a con woman who would separate him from his family, one act of bullying that sent a promising young man's life into a domino effect of chaos, a captain for the ultra-rich abruptly arrested and thrown into a foreign prison for a crime he didn't commit, and a landlord who kept a mentally disabled man a virtual prisoner d ..read more
The Patsy
8M ago
The narrator of The Patsy, Joshua Malina of The West Wing, joins Voyage CEO Nat Mundel to discuss his own significant presence in podcasting (The West Wing Weekly and Chutzpod), his enthusiasm for the issues and story presented in The Patsy, and why he was pleased to get the call to narrate the show.
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