Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer
Weekly podcast.

Season 4: When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. The autopsy proved otherwise: Nathan, 67, had been viciously beaten to death, punched so hard by her assailant that two of her teeth had been knocked out. Days later, a hotel employee went to the hospital to be treated for an infection in his hand, which was teeming with a bacteria most often found in human mouths. That, plus a pendant an officer said was discovered in the trunk of his car, sealed the fate of Elwood Jones, who awaits execution on Ohio's death row. For nearly 30 years, Jones has maintained his innocence -- and accused police of straight-up framing him. The journalists of Accused are reexamining the case to learn if Jones truly belongs on death row, or if a botched investigation let someone else get away with murder.

Season 3: In 1984, a father of three disappeared while working at a mysterious Cincinnati plant. It turned out he’d met a gruesome fate: Pieces of bone, his eyeglasses and walkie-talkie were uncovered inside a vat that reached 1350 degrees Fahrenheit. Two months later, the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center was revealed to have been processing uranium – and polluting the region. The dead man’s children believe their father was murdered because he intended to expose how the plant had been releasing millions of pounds of uranium dust into the atmosphere. We’re hoping to figure out: Did 39-year-old David Bocks kill himself, as Fernald officials alleged, or was he more likely killed?


Season 2: A soft-hearted prison minister was found killed in her Kentucky apartment, and Newport police zeroed in on an ex-convict she’d counseled. Thirty years later, the conviction is overturned and the case is once again unsolved. The Cincinnati Enquirer investigates: Was William Virgil wrongly convicted for murder?


Season 1: When Elizabeth Andes was found murdered in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case. Two juries disagreed. The Cincinnati Enquirer investigates: Was the right guy charged, or did a killer walk free?

52 episodes  •  0 archived  •  
Bonus·
Aug 21, 2025
Aug 21, 2025
1 min
E3·
May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025
39 mins
E2·
Apr 8, 2025
Apr 8, 2025
1 min
Bonus·
May 21, 2024
May 21, 2024
29 secs
Bonus·
May 14, 2024
May 14, 2024
29 secs
Trailer·
May 3, 2023
May 3, 2023
15 mins
S4 E8·
Mar 13, 2023
Mar 13, 2023
37 mins
Bonus·
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
42 mins
S4 E7·
Mar 15, 2022
Mar 15, 2022
40 mins
S4 E6·
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 8, 2022
38 mins