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Life After MurderA Radio Documentary
Have you ever met anyone who committed murder? What happens after they are convicted and sent to prison? And what are their chances for getting out?
In the Spring of 2012, Radio Producer/Reporter and 2009 Soros Justice Media Fellow Nancy Mullane will present Life After Murder, a two-hour, four-part radio documentary that takes listeners behind prison walls and inside a world where people struggle to redeem themselves amid diminishing hope they will ever be granted parole.
On January 8, 2010 Chicago Public Radio’s award-winning program, This American Life, aired Hasta la Vista, Maybe a story about one of the men featured in Life After Murder. It was awarded the 2011 National Edward R. Murrow for Audio News Documentary.
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In 1984, Jesse Reed shot and killed a man in a botched robbery. At the age of 27, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life-in-prison with the possibility of parole. At the age of 49, he's ready to go before the parole board, again.
Don Cronk shot and killed a man in a home burglary. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years-to-life in prison with the possibility of parole. 26 years later he’s facing his seventh parole hearing.
At the age of 27 Philip J. Seiler shot a man. After turning himself over to the police, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 17 years-to-life in state prison with the possibility of parole. 20 years and three parole hearings later, Seiler hopes the next time he goes before the parole board, he'll be found suitable. |