Suspect is an investigative series about mislaid justice and the kinds of weighty decisions that detectives, lawyers, and jurors make every day - decisions that, once made, are almost impossible to reverse.
Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark follows Leon Benson, who spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories turned out to be wrong? And what if the people who knew what really happened had never been allowed to speak? Suspect Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark is the story of two victims: one murdered, one sentenced to life. Follow host Matt Shaer and attorney Lara Bazelon as they investigate how the justice system failed both Leon and Kasey, and who the real killer might be. Join this unprecedented look inside the attempt to overturn a wrongful conviction and find out if justice will finally be served.
Credits
Suspect is a co-production of Wondery Media and Campside Media
Host: Matthew Shaer & Lara Bazelon
Producer: Cierra Franco
Reported and written by Matthew Shear, Eric Benson, Charlie Nelson Keever & Lara Bazelon
Sound Design & Mix: Garrett Tiedemann
Original Music by Doug Slawin, Netta Hadari, and Garrett Tiedemann
Studio engineer in Atlanta was Jimmy Guthrie of Arcade 160 Studios. In San Francisco, our engineers were Arielle Flinkman and Grace Coleman of Women’s Audio Mission
Fact checking: Matthew Giles
Executive Producers: Matthew Shaer, Eric Benson, Charlie Nelson Keever and Lara Bazelon
Studio Engineering By Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan
Fact Checking: Gray Lantta
For Campside Media:
Executive Producers: Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, and Matt Shaer.
Operations Team is Doug Slawin, Ashley Warren, Sabina Mara, Emma Simonoff, Destiny Dingle & David Eichler
For Wondery Media:
Producer: Bryan Taylor White
Senior Producer: Lizzie Bassett
Executive Producers: Erin O’Flaherty and Marshall Lewy Managing Producer: Candace Manriquez Wrenn