Wrongful Convictions Collective
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Brought to you by the Wrongful Convictions Collective, A Whole Life Later informs listeners about wrongful convictions and the circumstances that cause them.Join hosts Kylie and Rory as they discuss wrongful convictions, talk to relevant guests and debate techniques used.Kylie is interested in the forensics and victimology of wrongful convictions. She’s an outspoken optimist who always has a theory about what really happened in wrongful convictions. Rory offers a critical perspective on the legal aspects of the case. He’s got the more realistic, sarcastic approach to life and to wrongful convictions. You can learn more about the...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed case reconstruction meets clear procedural scrutiny, showing how investigative and courtroom failures can build upon one another.
A Whole Life Later traces wrongful convictions through the decisions that turned suspicion into punishment. Kylie Barr and Rory Smith move case by case, with some stories continuing across multiple episodes, reconstructing the lives involved before examining police questioning,…
A cigarette butt falls from a doily, and your confidence in the investigation goes with it.
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A steady look at how wrongful convictions are challenged, and why repair remains difficult.
A Whole Life Later shifts from wrongful conviction to the harder problem of what repair can actually mean. It follows the legal path around exoneration in Canada and uses the Newfoundland cases of Ronald Darleton, Randy Drukin, and Gregory Parsons to show how relief can emerge…
A grim, careful account of grief, coercion, and procedural failure.
Greg Parsons's story begins with a son breaking into his mother's apartment after days of silence and finding her dead. A Whole Life Later uses that discovery to frame a wrongful conviction case, and it keeps a steady hand without softening the police conduct that follows.
A careful account of how forensic authority hardened into harm, and why the record still matters.
A Whole Life Later follows Charles Smith from an unsettled childhood and a long search for his birth mother to the authority he later held as a forensic child pathologist at Sick Kids.
A newborn crisis becomes a wrongful conviction story shaped by plea pressure and family separation.
The episode opens on Dinesh Kumar's month-old son crying, turning blue, and not breathing, then widens into a wrongful conviction story about a family new to Canada and overwhelmed by a criminal process they barely understand.
A wrongful conviction story shaped by grief, procedure, and a courtroom that keeps missing the point.
Tammy Wynn's case unfolds with a hard, steady logic: a child's death, repeated police visits, and a mother whose account does not move while investigators keep reading the same details against her.
A careful wrongful-conviction story that treats medical detail as part of the case, not decoration.
The episode begins with a parent hearing something alarming, finding her child in distress, and calling 911 without hesitation. From there, it moves through the injury, the hospital stay, and the medical history around a young child with epilepsy, and those details do the heavy…
A bruise, a theory, and a mother made to defend herself.
A Whole Life Later treats Maria Shepard's case as a careful study of how a bruise, a theory, and a disputed reading of the record can push a mother toward a wrongful conviction.
Bloodstain analysis, old convictions, and one expert shaping the courtroom record.
A Whole Life Later tracks the uneasy meeting point between bloodstain pattern analysis, forensic certainty, and courtroom outcomes. It begins with the 1954 first use of the method as U.S. expert testimony, then circles back to the unresolved question of whether Dr.
True crime with patience for the strange details.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
A Whole Life Later: Season 2, "Ties That Bind" examines the 1993 murder of Brenda Young in St.
A Whole Life Later, Season 2’s “Ties That Bind,” follows Ronald Dalton after Brenda Dalton choked on dry cereal in Gander, Newfoundland, on August 15, 1988.
This episode explores remedies for wrongful convictions in Canada, covering the appeal process, ministerial review under Criminal Code section 696.1, and the Lamer Inquiry's findings on three exonerees.
Greg Parsons cannot get hold of his mother after New Year's Eve, and the worry keeps growing.
Charles Smith's story sits at the center of the episode.
This episode tells the story of Dinesh Kumar, an immigrant in Canada wrongfully convicted for his infant son's death based on discredited shaken baby syndrome evidence.
This episode continues the story of Tammy Wynne (Marquardt), wrongfully convicted for the murder of her son Kenneth in 1995.
Tammy Wynn is going about her day in 1993 when her two-and-a-half-year-old son Kenneth goes down for a nap in the spare room.
Kylie Barr opens the episode by asking listeners to set aside easy assumptions.
This episode investigates bloodstain pattern analysis as a 'junk science' through the career of expert Tom Bevel, examining how his testimony contributed to multiple wrongful convictions.
David Cam comes home on September 28, 2000 and finds his wife and two children shot in the family garage.
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March 14, 1995 begins as a normal night in Fort Worth until a frantic, intoxicated call reaches 911 at 11:39 p.m.
Hosts Kylie and Rory investigate two cases of injustice against Indigenous people in Alberta: Leah Bull's brutal arrest and assault by RCMP officers, and Clayton Boucher's wrongful conviction for robbery and drug charges based on flawed evidence and procedural failures.
This episode examines the case of Wendy Scott, whose conflicting confessions and cognitive limitations played a crucial role in Connie Oakes' wrongful conviction for murder.