Proof: A True Crime Podcast

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February 09 Murder at the Bike Shop | Ep. 4 – Bondo Beast
Kalamazoo Cold Case detectives question Scott Baldwin about the night Earl O’Byrne was killed—but they don’t think he’s telling the truth. Scott shares his side of the story with Susan and Jacinda. Plus, the Proof team speaks with a current Kalamazoo Circuit Court judge about another troubling case: his former client, Roberto D’Avanzo, who was convicted 24 years after his girlfriend’s murder—despite an alibi that seems impossible to ignore.
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57 min
February 05 Murder at the Bike Shop | Sidebar 3
In the third episode of PROOF: Murder at the Bike Shop, Jacinda and Kevin sit down with the key witness against Scott Bladwin. In this week’s Sidebar,
hear their impressions of that interview. The team also discusses the case
against Patrick Mishall, who was convicted of the 1991 murder of 27-year-old Christine Dimmick.

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23 min
February 02 Murder at the Bike Shop | Ep. 3 – Memories Awake
Stacey told police that her ex-boyfriend, Scott Baldwin, killed Earl O-Byrne, but they didn’t believe her. So why, 12-years later, did the Kalamazoo Cold Case Team decide she was telling the truth? What will she say 25 years later when the PROOF team talks to her? The team also looks at another Kalamazoo cold case with similarities to Baldwin's: the 1991 murder of 27-year-old Christine Dimmick, and conviction of Patrick Mishall over a decade later.
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54 min
January 29 Murder at the Bike Shop | Sidebar 1 -2
In the first Sidebar episode of their new season of Proof: Murder at the Bike Shop, Susan, Jacinda, and Kevin come together to discuss episodes one and two offering behind the scenes insights and sharing their thoughts on the case against Scott Baldwin.

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20 min
January 26 Murder at the Bike Shop | Ep. 2 – Kalamazoo Cycle
To understand how Scott Baldwin was convicted, the Proof team unearths everything they can about 83-year-old Earl O’Byrne and the circumstances of his murder.

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54 min
January 20 Murder at the Bike Shop | Ep. 1 – Toes First
The brutal 1988 murder of 83-year-old Kalamazoo bike shop owner Earl O’Byrne is shocking. Earl is a fixture in the community who has sold just about every kid in town their first bicycle. Despite numerous tips, the case goes cold. But over a decade later Scott Baldwin is arrested by the newly formed Cold Case Team and is convicted of killing Earl. Scott is adamant he didn’t do it and now, 25 years later, he’s afraid he will die from the cancer spreading through his body before the truth is uncovered. Susan Simpson, Jacinda Davis, and Kevin Fitzpatrick race against the clock to find out what really happened before it’s too late for Scott – what they didn't expect to uncover is a web of troubling convictions that expands far beyond the case of this one defendant.

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54 min
January 16 Murder at the Warehouse | Sidebar 18
It's been over a year since evidence in Renee Ramos' murder case was sent to a lab for DNA testing. The Proof team checks in with Jake Silva to see how he is holding up while he waits for the results.
An all news season of PROOF starts on January 20, 2026 with a case from Kalamazoo, Michigan.

SHOW NOTES:
⁠Visit our website⁠ for episode behind the scenes photos and more.
Follow us on social media: on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook we are @proofcrimepod.
Listener questions or tips about any of the cases we cover are welcome @⁠[email protected]⁠.

If you have information about Renee Ramos' murder please contact us at ⁠[email protected]⁠ or at ⁠(347) 985-0794⁠, or you can reach out to Jake's attorneys: Audrey McGinn / The Innocence Center /⁠[email protected]⁠ or Lauryn Barbosa Findley / The Northern California Innocence Project / ⁠[email protected]

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7 min
January 12 Proof: Murder at the Bike Shop (Extended Teaser)
Proof returns on January 20th, 2026 with an all new case and this time the stakes are higher than ever. A dying man sits in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. Susan, Jacinda, and Kevin race against the clock to find out what really happened.

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4 min
January 06 Proof: Murder at the Bike Shop (Teaser 1)
PROOF returns on January 20th, 2026 with Season 3, and this time the stakes are higher than ever. In this new season, Susan Simpson of the Undisclosed Podcast along with Jacinda Davis and Kevin Fitzpatrick of TV’s Evil Lives Here, dive into a murder mystery that has left a terminally ill man - who still proclaims his innocence - behind bars for 25 years. The PROOF team is racing against the clock to find out what really happened before it's too late. But what they didn't expect to uncover is a web of troubling convictions that expands far beyond the case of one defendant.

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1 min
March 17, 2025 Murder at the Warehouse | Ep. 19 - Meeting Jake
Although they talk to him often, Jacinda Davis and Kevin Fitzpatrick have never actually met Jake Silva face to face. While they're in California they take the opportunity to meet with one of Jake's attorneys, Audrey McGinn, who explains what's happening with the DNA testing. The Proof team also hears from Renee's mom, Donna Ramos, who has some unexpected news.

SHOW NOTES
Visit our website for episode transcripts, behind the scenes photos and more.
Follow us on social media: on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook we are @proofcrimepod.
Listener questions or tips about any of the cases we cover are welcome @[email protected].

If you have information about Renee Ramos' murder please contact us at [email protected] or at (929) 267-3172, or you can reach out to Jake's attorneys: Audrey McGinn / The Innocence Center /[email protected] or Lauryn Barbosa Findley / The Northern California Innocence Project / [email protected]

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35 min

About Proof: A True Crime Podcast

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Proof: A True Crime Podcast is a serialized investigation into cases of potential wrongful conviction. Hosted by Susan Simpson of the Undisclosed Podcast and Jacinda Davis of TV’s Evil Lives Here, Proof unravels the tangled and competing demands of the legal system, police practices, truth, guilt and innocence.

Season 2: The second season of Proof: Murder at the Warehouse takes Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis to Manteca, CA where they reinvestigate the murder of 18-year-old Renee Ramos. On June 5, 2000, Ramos’ body was found buried under a pile of debris inside the shell of a new Home Depot building. Despite tips hinting at alternate suspects - tips that were ignored until now - Renee’s boyfriend, 18-year-old skateboarder Jake Silva, and Ty Lopes, the 33-year-old uncle of one of Jake's close friends were arrested for her murder. The questionable testimony of a 14-year-old boy was the key evidence used to convict them both to life in prison.

Twenty-three years after Renee Ramos was murdered, Jake Silva remains in prison and maintains he is innocent. In season two of Proof: MURDER AT THE WAREHOUSE, Susan and Jacinda travel the streets of Manteca, reinvestigating the case against Jake and Ty – and in the process uncover long-overlooked evidence about what really happened to Renee

Season 1: In season one of Proof: RUSSIAN ROULETTE Susan Simpson and Jacinda Davis reinvestigate the murder of Brian Bowling.

On an October night in 1996, a gunshot rattles the walls of a double-wide trailer on the outskirts of Rome, Georgia. 15-year-old Brian Bowling is laying on the floor of his room, head bleeding from a gunshot wound. By the next morning, Brian is dead. Investigators quickly conclude that Brian’s wound was self-inflicted, the tragic result of teenage bravado. And yet within six months, two friends are arrested and accused of plotting to kill Brian. Cain Joshua Story and Darrell Lee Clark are convicted and sentenced to life in prison. An evil teenage plot? A horrible tragic accident? Or, a blatant miscarriage of justice? In this first season of PROOF, Susan and Jacinda drive the back roads of Rome, searching for the truth.

Visit our website for episode transcripts, case files, behind the scene photos and more.

Listener questions or tips about any of the cases we cover are welcome @[email protected].