Crime & Cookie Juice

“Evaristo Salas is a free man. At last.

A jury convicted Salas in 1995 of shooting Jose Arreola twice in the head on a foggy November night. Salas was 15 at the time of the killing and 16 when he was imprisoned...

Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you. 

Justin Brooks, Director and Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project, has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison...

After a night out celebrating her acceptance into grad school, Dana Feitler returned home to her apartment complex in Chicago's affluent Gold Coast neighborhood where she was abducted by 3 men. After forcing her to withdraw $400 from ATM, she was lead to an alley and shot and killed.

Desperate for leads, police turned to a cop-friendly informant, willing to say anything to help them. That person was Lee Harris...

Drug overdoses in the US are at a record high. Heroin has been replaced by the single deadliest drug threat to our nation, Fentanyl. Marijuana has been decriminalized in over 20 states, yet people remain in federal prison serving mandatory sentences for possession and sale of marijuana. In the past fifty years, the ‘war’ on drugs has fueled incarceration, exacerbated addiction and hampered economic progress...

The verdict is in and the jurors are talking! Join Chris and Fatima as they go over headline cases, including how the jurors arrived at a unanimous verdict so quickly in the Murdaugh case and the latest on four Americans kidnapped in Mexico.

Join the stars of ID's hit show, Reasonable Doubt, Detective Chris Anderson and Fatima Silva, Esq. for the podcast that fans have been waiting for...

On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called police from his cell phone at 10:06 pm, saying he had discovered the bodies of his 52-year-old wife Maggie and their 22-year-old son Paul near the dog kennels at the family's hunting lodge in South Carolina. Both had been shot multiple times and with different weapons. Almost two years later, Alex Murdaugh is on trial for the double homicide of his own family. It's a trial rife with drugs, lies, and scandals...

It is estimated that, on average, approximately 15% of officers in the U.S. experience PTSD symptoms. More police officers and firefighters die by suicide than in the line of duty. They are front-row witnesses to horrific atrocities including, suicides, motor vehicle accidents that result in trauma and/or death, child abuse or neglect, overdoses, and acts of domestic violence...

December 1984, the town of Greeley, Colorado, is getting into the Christmas spirit. At a school holiday concert, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews sings alongside her classmates. Later that night, she’s dropped off to an empty house. By the time her family returns, Jonelle has vanished. For more than 3 1/2 decades, Jonelle’s disappearance was a mystery...

On January 4, 2023, real estate executive and mother of three, Ana Walshe, was reported missing by her employer and, separately, by her husband, Brian Walshe. She was last seen early on January 1, having had dinner with Brian and a friend of his on New Year's Eve...

"Justice is standing up for someone who cannot stand up for themselves, even if you may not agree with everything that they are. One thing that you can connect over is they are human and so are you...