
Evil Genius(2018)
This baffling true crime story starts with the grisly death of a pizza man who robs a bank with a bomb around his neck - and gets weirder from there.


“Guilty until proven innocent.”
The personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn.
The Innocence Files is a documentary series that first aired in 2020 exploring themes of miniseries, true crime, reenactment. Created by Will Staeger, The personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have worked to highlight and overturn.
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