On Their Behalf: A True Crime Podcast

In this week's episode, Aja discusses the death of Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old black woman who was shot by police while she was suffering from a mental health crisis. 

In 1979, 12 women were murdered in a string of killings in the small neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston. Aja and Devon discuss why so many women were targeted in such a small town. 

In this week's episode, Devon discusses the case of Joan Little, who faced the death penalty for killing her jailor after he sexually assaulted her, and the cultural impact of the 1975 trial. 

This week Aja tells the case of a pregnant mother of a toddler who goes missing in Florida. 

In 1991, Torriano Jackson was shot and killed. Valentino Dixon served 27 years for his murder, but according to multiple eyewitnesses, he wasn't the shooter. Find out how Golf Digest and Michelle Obama were involved with Valentino's exoneration. Pics and sources on instagram @ontheirbehalf_pod.

CURTIS FLOWERS EPISODE: https://anchor.fm/dna-podcast7/episodes/Ep--10-The-Tardy-Furniture-Murders-and-the-Trials-of-Curtis-Flowers-ed3n7s

Written and edited by: Devon Balsamo-Gills

Music by: Holly Amber Church

Social Media: Kelcie Gruenberg 

This week Aja tells the story on behalf of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was beaten to death by two white autoworkers in 1982.

Written and edited by: Aja Hamilton

Produced by: Devon Balsamo-Gillis & Aja Hamilton

Music by: Holly Amber Church

Social Media: Kelcie Gruenberg

This week's episode, Devon discusses all that we know of the ongoing case surrounding the mysterious death of 15 year old Quawan Bobby Charles. 

This week Aja tells the story on behalf of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African American girl who was shot while sleeping in her Kentucky home by plain clothes police officers in the middle of the night.

In the Season 2 finale, Aja tells the story on Behalf of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's local grocery store.

This week Aja and Devon tell the case on behalf of Celia A Slave, a 19 year old enslaved woman who was found guilty of murdering her slave owner Robert Newson, the man who raped her repeatedly for 5 years.