Best Wrongful Conviction Documentaries - April 2024

True Conviction

• ASIN: B078WFTYH8
• ASIN: B078WFTYH8

Failure of Justice: A Brutal Murder, An Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions

Six Times More Explosive Than 'Making A Murderer'!Everyone felt the same way: small-town Nebraska widow Helen Wilson didn't have an ounce of meanness inside her body. Then on February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, the unthinkable happened. The sixty-eight-year-old resident was murdered inside her second-floor apartment, but why?The crime went unsolved for four years - then came the unthinkable - a total of six people - three men and three women were arrested and charged with the widow's rape murder. All six went to prison. The town was relieved knowing that six monsters were lo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1942266472
• ASIN: 1942266472
• ISBN: 1942266472
• Manufacturer: WildBlue Press

An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story

• ASIN: B011P4ENY8
• ASIN: B011P4ENY8

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

• ASIN: B003B02NZQ
• ASIN: B003B02NZQ
• Manufacturer: Dell

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• ASIN: B01AYLJA64
• ASIN: B01AYLJA64
• Brand: mintytees keepin' It Fresh
• Size: Large

Innocent on Death Row

• ASIN: B0771WNFJ4
• ASIN: B0771WNFJ4

Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration.In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house on fire to cover his tracks, deepening the heinousness of the crime and rocking the tiny community to its core. Authorities were eager to make an arrest. Five days later, Anthony Graves was in custody.Graves, then twenty-six years old and without an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807062529
• ASIN: 0807062529
• ISBN: 0807062529
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Murder in the Graveyard: A Brutal Murder. A Wrongful Conviction. A 27-Year Fight for Justice.

A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery. Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect. He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07N18SR2J
• ASIN: B07N18SR2J
• Manufacturer: HarperElement

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• ASIN: B01AYM59OK
• ASIN: B01AYM59OK
• Brand: mintytees keepin' It Fresh
• Size: Large

Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

Now a New York Times bestseller and a major docuseriesThe 2017 American Book Award Winner from the Before Columbus FoundationA Washington Post notable nonfiction book for 2016A Goodreads Best of 2016 Nonfiction FinalistA Kobo Best Book of 2016Includes an update from Rabia on Adnan's vacated murder conviction in summer 2016Serial only told part of the story…In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family fr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B018E6TTPS
• ASIN: B018E6TTPS
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery

“Whatever you thought you believed about this infamous case, get ready to change your mind or be more convinced than ever. … Fascinating.”—New York Times bestselling author Steve JacksonIn 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK’s Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix “Making A Murderer” documentary. In WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Ag... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07JKKRRMJ
• ASIN: B07JKKRRMJ
• Manufacturer: WildBlue Press

Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent Over a Decade in Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit

The New York Times bestseller – now in paperback, with a new afterword“A must-read for those who care about justice and integrity in our public institutions.” —Alan M. Dershowitz, Esq.The Definitive Story of One of the Most Infamous Murders of the Twentieth Century and the Heartbreaking Miscarriage of Justice That Followed On Halloween, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley’s body was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01EEQ9B4G
• ASIN: B01EEQ9B4G
• Manufacturer: Skyhorse

I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility

A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the Central Park Five, the young men wrongly accused of this crime.Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—sh... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743244389
• ASIN: 0743244389
• ISBN: 0743244389
• Brand: Scribner
• Manufacturer: Scribner

What Set Me Free (The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture Brian Banks) : A True Story of Wrongful Conviction, a Dream Deferred, and a Man Redeemed

9781982121310

• UPC: 321573203

Good Kids, Bad City : A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America

From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of

• UPC: 556322377
• Rating: 5.0

The Boy on the Bicycle : A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto

A shocking true story, about a coerced confession, fumbled police investigation, a miscarriage of justice, and the star lawyer who fought to free Moffatt from

• UPC: 566407164
• Rating: 4.0

Justice Miscarried : Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada

Behind the proud facade of Canada's criminal justice system lie the shattered lives of the people unjustly caught within its web. Justice Miscarried tells the heart-wrenching stories of 12 innocent Canadians who were wrongly convicted

• UPC: 15526402
• Rating: 4.0

Infinite Hope : How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

9780807004784

• UPC: 400297706
• Rating: 4.875

Infinite Hope : How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul

"Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years on death row and 12 years in solitary confinement, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. Infinite Hope is an argument against the death penalty

• UPC: 56176257
• Rating: 4.875

Rectify : The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

Makes a powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal. In Rectify, a former Innocence Project

• UPC: 240381666
• Rating: 5.0

Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul (Audiobook)

Written by a wrongfully convicted man, a powerful memoir about fighting for-and

• UPC: 896060610
• Rating: 4.875

Blind Injustice : A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

"In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent Mark Godsey takes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions. Drawing upon both psychological

• UPC: 55898016

A Far, Far Better Thing : Did a Fatal Attraction Lead to a Wrongful Conviction?

In 1985, socialites Derek and Nancy Haysom were found brutally stabbed to death in their home in Boonsboro, Virginia. When suspicion turned to the Haysoms' beautiful but troubled daughter, Elizabeth, and her German boyfriend, Jens

• UPC: 724096337
• Rating: 5.0