What If They’re Wrong? After the Accusation

The creators of Accused are starting anew to bring you fresh investigations into cases authorities insist they’ve figured out. We’ll ask the most burning question. Welcome to What If They’re Wrong? After the Accusation Season 1 coming in early fall 2025

An overturned conviction. A fight to reinstate it. The stakes couldn’t be higher. It’s been two years since journalist Amber Hunt updated the podcast world on the status of the case against Elwood Jones, an Ohio man who spent nearly 30 years on death row for a murder conviction that was overturned in late 2022. Judge Wende Cross said prosecutors had a “win at all costs mentality” and withheld ...

Prosecutors once said a single piece of evidence — a gold pendant worn daily by murder victim Rhoda Nathan — was more damning than a fingerprint in pinning her death on suspect Elwood Jones. But a new appeals court ruling just blew a hole in their case, tossing out testimony from the officer who found that pendant in Jones’ car. The problem? He’s dead now, and Jones never got a fair shot at cro...

The Ohio Supreme Court has issued its long-awaited ruling in the Elwood Jones case. Spoiler alert: It didn’t go Jones’ way. But that decision may already be beside the point. In this update episode, we break down why the defense argues that prosecutors are legally barred from continuing the case at all. At the center of it all is the 1994 killing of Rhoda Nathan and a prosecution confronting th...