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Season 4: When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. The autopsy proved otherwise: Nathan, 67, had been viciously beaten to death, punched so hard by her assailant that two of her teeth had been knocked out. Days later, a hotel employee went to the hospital to be treated for an infection in his hand, which was teeming with a bacteria most often found in human mouths. That, plus a pendant an officer said was discovered in the trunk of his car, sealed the fate of Elwood Jones, who awaits execution on Ohio's death row. For nearly 30 years, Jones has maintained his innocence -- and accused police of straight-up framing him. The jo…
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A recorded interview and forensic medicine context show how investigative choices can shape a sexual-assault case.
Accused is at its strongest when it stays with Emily Zabalos's recorded interview, where her attempt to describe an alleged rape is repeatedly steered toward what she drank and, later, whether it happened at all.
A measured courtroom chapter where withheld documents and a disputed jailhouse tip shape the fight over a new trial.
Accused spends three days inside the fight over whether Elwood Jones should get another chance in the 1994 murder case involving Rhoda Nathan.
A courtroom-focused return to Ritha Welch's unsolved murder, built around credibility, trial handling, and lingering doubt.
Accused returns to the unsolved murder of Ritha Welch with a close focus on credibility, testimony, and the way a trial can be shaped by small procedural details.
A necklace pendant, a disputed hand injury, and the lingering questions around the case against Elwood Jones.
A necklace pendant once seemed to anchor the case against Elwood Jones. This episode returns to that assumption through a death-penalty prosecution built without an eyewitness or confession, pressing on why a key piece of evidence did not lead to a murder charge for a full year…
A clear look at how Ohio's capital-case rules shaped Elwood Jones's prosecution, with race left as the episode's pointed caveat.
The episode places Elwood Jones's capital prosecution inside the Ohio rules that made a death sentence possible. Dan Horn of the Cincinnati Enquirer remembers Hamilton County in the 1990s as a busy, aggressive capital-case environment, where one reporter could be tracking…
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
A former cop's DNA, a dropped case, unreliable memories.
Emily Zabalos says a Georgia detective pressed her about drinking, slurring, and why she did not force Marshawn Curtis out, and she says the 13-minute interview made her feel like a criminal.
Accused's Chapter 8, "A New Trial," follows Elwood Jones's August 2022 hearing in Hamilton County over whether his 1996 conviction for killing Rhoda Nathan in an Embassy Suites hotel room should be reopened.
Accused returns to the 1987 murder of Ritha Welch and examines what happened after William Virgil's conviction was overturned through DNA testing in 2015.
Accused: Chapter 7: What Now?
Accused: Chapter 6 examines why Elwood Jones received a death sentence for Rhoda Nathan's 1994 murder while Hamilton County pursued capital cases aggressively in the 1990s.
Accused: Chapter 5 examines a late claim that Earl Reed confessed to killing Rhoda Nathan, relayed through Linda Reed and Dolores Shug, and asks why police did not investigate it in 1995.
Accused: Chapter 4 examines why Blue Ash police focused on Elwood Jones in Rhoda Nathan’s 1994 murder while other Embassy Suites employees, including Anthony Dodds and Anthony Lackey, received uneven scrutiny.
Accused: Chapter 3 examines how Blue Ash police handled Rhoda Nathan's 1994 death at the Embassy Suites Hotel and why former officer Dave Hoffman called the initial crime-scene work botched.
Accused: Chapter 1: The Crime introduces Elwood Jones, sentenced to death in 1997 for the 1994 killing of 67-year-old Rhoda Nathan at the Embassy Suites in Blue Ash, Ohio.
Amber Hunt examines the 1994 death of Rhoda Nathan at the Embassy Suites in Blue Ash, where early witnesses initially thought Nathan had suffered a heart attack before officers identified severe head trauma.
Accused examines why Fernald residents received a $78 million settlement in 1989 while workers later received $20 million, unlike many communities near nuclear facilities.
Amber Hunt’s Accused finale revisits David Box’s 1983 disappearance at Fernald, a uranium plant where Richard Schenck documented 298,000 pounds of uranium discharged into the air and 167,000 pounds into the Great Miami River.
Accused: Chapter 7 examines conflicting accounts surrounding David Box's final shift at the Fernald plant, including Charlie Shouse's claim that Box appeared depressed and Harry Easterling's denial that he ever described Box that way.
The host discusses the ongoing investigation into the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Andes, sharing updates and listener questions.
This episode of Accused investigates the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Andes, seeking new tips and evidence.
This episode discusses the unsolved 1978 murder of Elizabeth Andes and the challenges of solving cold cases before DNA technology.
The host investigates the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Andes, reexamining evidence and suspects.