Like 'Serial' or 'In the Dark'? The new podcast 'Letters From Sing Sing,' about a murder with ties to NYC and the NYPD, should be your next listen DatelineNBC NBCNewsStudios
Velazquez spent years fighting for justice, spending hours reading every page of his file and trying to find ways to prove he was innocent. Slepian documents Velazquez’s quest for freedom with real-time recordings and exposes systemic breakdowns in the criminal justice system along the way.
And the case is still unfolding 20 years later. In 2021, after more than 23 years behind bars, Velazquez was granted clemency by then-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.,” a podcast from Dateline NBC that dives into a 1996 murder case in New York City, in which a man who claims he had 13 people that could place him 1,000 miles away from the crime scene gets convicted of murder and serves 20 years in prison.
The first two episodes of “Letters from Sing Sing” will be available wherever you get your podcasts on Feb. 20.
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