Jack Laurence
49 episodes listed below
Prison cases, reopened one detail at a time.
One Minute Remaining is a true-crime interview show built around people serving lengthy prison sentences and the cases that put them there. Jack Lawrence moves between inmate accounts, case detail, attorney perspective, and the unresolved pressure points that still shape each story.
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One Minute Remaining is a true-crime series about incarceration, disputed convictions, and the machinery of criminal cases after the verdict has already hardened. Jack Lawrence centers people serving lengthy prison sentences, then works outward through police accounts, trial evidence, witness statements, legal strategy, and the slow grind of appeals or clemency. The show is patient by design. Stories often unfold across many parts, giving a case enough space for contradictions, missed opportunities, and procedural decisions to become visible. Recent episodes spend time with Anthony Duke’s fight for clemency, Kara Garvin’s triple homicide case, Dwight Bergeron’s story, and Charles McCrory’s continued incarceration after bite-mark evidence came under scrutiny. The series pays close attention to the fragile parts of criminal proof. Child eyewitness testimony is treated carefully, especially when adult authority, fear, memory, and suggestion may shape what a child says. Prison informants get similar scrutiny. So do missing recordings, questionable forensic claims, witness incentives, trial choices, and evidence that appears stronger in court than it looks years later. The show is not polished into distance. It keeps the rough edges of phone calls, inmate accounts, and case review, which gives the reporting a plainspoken, sometimes blunt energy. Jack Lawrence does not frame every subject as innocent, but he does keep returning to the question of whether the process held. Legal conversations, including recurring analysis from Michael Leonard, help separate emotional force from evidentiary weight. That balance gives the series its pull. It is personal without being sentimental, skeptical without flattening everyone into a theory, and more interested in how a conviction was built than in the shock of the crime itself. For listeners drawn to wrongful-conviction questions, prison interviews, and long-form case reconstruction, it offers a demanding but absorbing lane of true crime.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer case reconstruction, legal doubt, and inmate interviews over fast crime summaries. It especially suits audiences interested in wrongful-conviction questions, clemency, forensic reliability, and trial testimony.
What sets it apart: The show lets incarcerated people speak at length, then tests those accounts against legal analysis, evidence disputes, and procedural detail. Its multi-part structure gives complicated cases room to develop instead of forcing them into a single-episode arc.
In 'One Minute Remaining' I speak with inmates serving lengthy prison sentences for a range of different crimes. From arson to robbery, attempted murder and even murder itself and everything in between.I'm not here to try and prove them innocent or guilty, what I am here to do is allow them the chance to tell their stories. We'll look at the case's against them and allow them to tell us their accounts of the events that lead up to their incarceration.Join the OMR Family and help support the show in a way that suits you, plus get bonus...
A child's identification and four prison informants: your reasonable doubt has homework.
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A focused review of how adult authority and suggestion can shape a child's account of what they saw.
Child eyewitness testimony sits at the center of this measured discussion about how adult authority and suggestion can shape what a young witness remembers.
Michael Leonard revisits the child's identification and later wallet detail in Kara Garvin's case.
Michael Leonard brings a defense attorney's eye to Kara Garvin's triple-homicide case, returning to the evidence around a six-year-old witness and a man who was apparently with Kara at the time of the crime.
A tightly wound case built around a child witness, a neighbor, four prison snitches, and letters treated as a dangerous game.
Kara Garvin's case turns on sharply different accounts from Paul, an eight-year-old boy, a neighbor, and four prison snitches. The letters become the most unsettling thread: Kara describes them as partly genuine and mostly part of a game, even as she hoped they might draw out an…
Kara Garvin's life-sentence case turns on a child's description, missing recordings, and evidence she says weakened the police case.
Kara Garvin's account of the triple homicide case centers on the gap she sees between the police version and the evidence behind it. Serving a life sentence, she returns to a child's description, the handling of clothing and hair, Paul's flight to Florida, and phone calls to a…
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Jack Lawrence interviews Tony Duke about a Michigan commutation initial connected to his life-without-parole sentence and Governor Gretchen Whitmer's clemency process.
Jack Lawrence frames this One Minute Remaining episode around Kara Garvin’s triple-homicide case, where a six-year-old boy’s eyewitness account was central to a life-without-parole sentence.
Jack Lawrence and defense attorney Michael Leonard revisit the Kara Garvin case, where Garvin was convicted of aggravated murder and received three life sentences without parole for a triple homicide she has always denied.
Jack Lawrence revisits part five of Kara Garvin’s case on One Minute Remaining, focusing on how a six-year-old witness’s account changed from the first police statements to trial.
Jack Lawrence opens part four of Kara Garvin's case by revisiting the alleged triple homicide tied to drugs and the police statement from Paul, who says Kara left the car, came back with a wallet and pill bottles, and later dyed her hair black at a hotel after stopping at Subway and Dollar General.
Jack Lawrence identifies a discrepancy between police notes describing Kara Garvin's black hair and Subway footage he says shows blonde or light-brown hair.
In One Minute Remaining, host Jack Lawrence interviews incarcerated Cara Garvin about the Ohio triple murder case.
Jack Lawrence and Michael Leonard review the One Minute Remaining cases from 2025 that caused the most controversy, including Susan Brown’s self-defense claim after 21.5 years in prison.
Part 10 of the story of Dwight Bergeron, a man incarcerated for over 30 years in Louisiana for a crime he and the alleged victims say he didn't commit.
Part eight of the story of Dwight Bergeron, a man serving three life sentences for sexual assault of his children, maintaining his innocence.
An interview with Dwight Bergeron about a true crime case in the Louisiana bayou.
A true crime podcast episode about Dwight Bergeron and a story set in the Louisiana Bayou.