{"podcast":{"title":"Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast","slug":"unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast-743080","podcast_index_feed_id":743080,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/3266604/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/unresolved","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5311e53a2bde2d740a83b33b85dc5d48.jpg","author":"Unresolved Productions","episode_count":450,"summary":"Some stories have no ending. Some questions never get answered. Since 2015, Micheal Whelan has made it his mission to ask them anyway. Unresolved is the podcast for those who believe every story is worth following, no matter where it leads. Join us as we dive into the cases that keep investigators up at night... cold cases, unidentified serial killers, unsolved disappearances, and other mysteries that refuse to stay buried. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T08:18:47.642129+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast-743080"},"episode":{"title":"West Memphis Three (Part Five: Alford Plea)","slug":"west-memphis-three-part-five-alford-plea","published_at":"2026-04-10T05:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast-743080/west-memphis-three-part-five-alford-plea","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast-743080","url":"https://www.patreon.com/posts/west-memphis-155142940?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71201551/wm3_05.mp3","summary":"\"When we told prosecutors we were innocent, they put us in prison for life. Now when we plead guilty, they set us free.\" On 19 August 2011, three men - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. - were transported from their respective facilities to a courthouse in Jonesboro, Arkansas. They were there to plead guilty to a crime they had spent the better part of two decades denying. At the same time, they were asserting their innocence and obtaining their freedom in an unusual legal maneuver called an Alford plea. What led up to that decision was the culmination of years of painstaking progress. What had started back in 1996 as a single HBO documentary had become a movement by 2011 heralded by celebrity backers and advocates pushing new DNA evidence. Yet at the end of the day, three men regained their freedom at a cost while questions continue to linger about the deaths of three boys... Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.me Check out the podcast store at unresolved.dashery.com If you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or Producer Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast--3266604/support .","meta_description":"\"When we told prosecutors we were innocent, they put us in prison for life. Now when we plead guilty, they set us free.\" On 19 August 2011, three men - Da…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4317,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast-743080/episodes/west-memphis-three-part-five-alford-plea/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/unresolved-a-true-crime-mystery-podcast-743080/west-memphis-three-part-five-alford-plea.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}