A courthouse custody log sharpens the question of why Jake Silva waited years for testing.
Proof Sidebar uses Jake Silva's post-season update to show how investigative delay can keep harm alive long after a case should have been clarified.

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Proof: A True Crime Podcast is a serialized investigation into cases of potential wrongful conviction. Hosted by Susan Simpson of the Undisclosed Podcast and Jacinda Davis of TV’s Evil Lives Here, Proof unravels the tangled and competing demands of the legal system, police practices, truth, guilt and innocence.Season 2: The second season of Proof: Murder at the Warehouse takes Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis to Manteca, CA where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos. On June 5, 2000, Ramos’ body was found buried under a pile of debris inside the shell of a new Home Depot building. Despite tips hinting...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Proof revisits murder convictions through persistent witness reporting while keeping victims, disputed evidence, and life after exoneration in the same frame.
Proof: A True Crime Podcast follows murder cases beyond the original verdict, testing witness accounts against fresh interviews, overlooked leads, and the lived consequences of conviction.
A witness's fourth version adds another detail; you get to decide what it changes.
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A courthouse custody log sharpens the question of why Jake Silva waited years for testing.
Proof Sidebar uses Jake Silva's post-season update to show how investigative delay can keep harm alive long after a case should have been clarified.
A measured look at how uncertain polygraphs shaped interviews and cold-case questions in Kalamazoo.
Proof's Sidebar episode six stays with the polygraph thread in Kalamazoo, tracking how the tests were described, challenged, and used by detectives in conversations with suspects and witnesses.
A loose Alabama sidebar finds the gap between a steady confession claim and the details that keep moving.
Proof Sidebar follows a trip to Alabama into the problem of a murder theory that keeps changing shape around a few stubborn facts. Susan Simpson, Jacinda Davis, and Kevin Fitzpatrick revisit the house, the claim that Scott came through a window, and the current owner's shift…
A careful sidebar on confessions, confirmation bias, and evidence that would not quite fit.
Proof Sidebar takes a hard crime-scene discussion and frames it around the way an investigation can begin protecting a theory instead of testing it.
A painted Jeep tests how timing, memory, and suspicion can reshape a cold-case theory.
Proof's Sidebar 8 keeps its focus on one small object with a larger charge: Scott's painted Jeep. The episode revisits a remembered account that Stacey said Scott came home bloody and burned clothes in a burn barrel, then carefully narrows what that memory can support.
A prison pickup opens into a hard look at how confession-heavy convictions take shape.
Scott Baldwin's release from Lakeland Prison in Coldwater, Michigan sets the hour in motion, and the pickup outside the prison entrance quickly turns uneasy when a long delay ends with a text saying he is not in good shape.
A timeline-driven case about changing memories, pressure, and a confession that never settles.
The episode keeps its attention on Stacey's shifting account of Scott's confession and on the much longer stretch between Earl of Burns' murder and the police tip she later described.
A paint stick, a Bondo claim, and a witness whose story keeps shifting.
Proof stays close to Scott Baldwin as the murder case turns on a seemingly small object: a paint stirring stick with a red substance that Scott insists was Bondo, not blood.

Direct fuel for intentional living.

Cold cases, carried back into the light.

True crime built from the stubborn detail.

Cold cases worked on tape, one season at a time.
This update episode follows the wrongful conviction case of Jake Silva, convicted for the murder of Renee Ramos 25 years ago.
In this Sidebar episode, hosts Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis discuss episode 14 of Proof's second season, focusing on witness testimonies and rumors in the Renee Ramos murder case.
In this episode, hosts Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis investigate the murder of Earl O'Byrne, focusing on key witness Stacey's changing testimony and the Kalamazoo cold case team's methods.
Hosts Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis reinvestigate the murder of Earl O'Byrne, focusing on overlooked suspects like employee James Long and alternate suspect Alan Nutter, while uncovering potential police misconduct in related cold cases.
The hosts discuss Episode 5 of Proof, focusing on the murder case against Scott Baldwin, where key evidence like bank bags was mishandled and never actually stolen, undermining the prosecution's theft motive.
Proof: A True Crime Podcast investigates the Kalamazoo cold case unit's handling of the Polderman triple homicide — three elderly people murdered in their home, unsolved for seven years.
Proof: A True Crime Podcast opens Season 3, "Murder at the Bike Shop," with Scott Baldwin’s release from Lakeland Prison in Coldwater, Michigan, after 25 years in prison and a terminal prostate cancer diagnosis.
This sidebar closes the season.
Reporters examining Scott Baldwin's 1988 conviction for the murder of Earl O'Byrne at a Kalamazoo bike shop systematically dissect the key witness accounts used against him.
Proof: A True Crime Podcast closes Season 2, Murder at the Warehouse, by revisiting Renee's death, the June 5, 2000 date on her headstone, and the 24th year since her friends last saw her alive.
This sidebar episode analyzes recent interviews with key figures in an ongoing murder investigation, focusing on contradictory statements from Tim Fisher about leaving town after the victim's death and Julie's conflicting accounts about rumors surrounding her house.
This episode provides an update on Jake Silva's wrongful conviction case, focusing on a key court hearing where the DA agrees not to oppose DNA testing on recently rediscovered evidence.
The hosts discuss overlooked tips in Scott's wrongful conviction case, including sightings of a car at the bike shop the morning of the murder, which point to employee James Long as a potential suspect.
This sidebar episode answers listener questions about the murder investigation at Earl O'Byrne's bike shop, covering topics like his hoarding habits, police oversights with evidence, and mysterious elements like a secret resident in the buildings.
Proof: A True Crime Podcast Season 3, Episode 2, 'Kalamazoo Cycle,' centers on the June 3, 1988 killing of 83-year-old Earl O'Byrne inside his Kalamazoo bike shop.
The team has spent more than a year digging through Jake's case and talking to every witness they can track down.
Proof turns its focus to Scott's conviction and the evidence that may have been mishandled around it.
Detective Hecht sets the date at 12-8-09 and frames the cold case homicide involving Earl O'Byrne.
Proof returns to Rome, Georgia.
This sidebar episode discusses Season 3, Episode 4 of Proof, focusing on Scott's murder case, including evidence like Missy Jarzma's statement about a bloody stick and the reliability of witness memory.
The Proof team investigates the murder of Earl O'Byrne at a Kalamazoo bike shop, focusing on James Long, the last person to see O'Byrne alive, who resembles the man seen outside the shop.
Tim Fisher's interview becomes the center of Proof: A True Crime Podcast's "Murder at the Warehouse | Ep.
Proof Sidebar 3 centers on Stacey’s account in the Scott O’Byrne case, including her claim that Scott came through a basement window and confessed that he killed Earl O’Byrne.
The hosts analyze the wrongful conviction case of Scott Baldwin for a 1988 bike shop murder, focusing on the alternative suspect Alan Nutter.
Jacinda interviews Dr.
This episode investigates Scott Baldwin's murder conviction, focusing on flawed evidence like a spray-painted Jeep and a Bondo stick mistaken for blood.
Hosts Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos in Manteca, CA, examining potential wrongful conviction.
A true crime podcast reinvestigating the murder of Renee Ramos, exploring potential wrongful conviction.
A serialized investigation into a potential wrongful conviction in the murder of Renee Ramos.
A serialized investigation into a potential wrongful conviction case, hosted by Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis.
This episode reopens a 38-year-old murder case in Kalamazoo, Michigan, questioning the conviction of Scott Baldwin and the reliability of the cold case team's methods.
A serialized investigation into a potential wrongful conviction case, hosted by Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis.
A serialized investigation into potential wrongful conviction, re-examining the murder of Renee Ramos in Manteca, CA.
A serialized investigation into a potential wrongful conviction in the murder of Renee Ramos.
A true crime podcast reinvestigating the murder of Renee Ramos, examining forensic evidence and potential wrongful conviction.
A serialized investigation into a potential wrongful conviction in the murder of Renee Ramos.