In 1996, the body of 19-year-old Stacey Stites was found along a quiet country road outside of Bastrop, Texas. Stites was a white woman engaged to a white police officer in a neighboring town — but she’d also allegedly been having an affair with Rodney Reed. Reed, a Black man, was arrested and charged for her murder. In this episode, Aisling Ayers recounts what happened to Stites, how Reed became a suspect and the potential theories for what might have happened the night Stites died.
In 1976, four Black women went missing in Austin, Texas. Their stories went largely untold. In this two-part series, Cristela Jones...
The mostly conservative state of Texas is not necessarily known for its promotion of sex education in schools — it’s actually not even...
Anthony Graves was only 26 years old when he was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. Accused of murdering a family of six in Somerville...
In 1998, Rodney Reed was the defendant in Bastrop, Texas’, first capital murder trial in nearly 50 years. In this episode, Aisling Ayers...
Forsaken is a series that explores the systems that both enhance and oppress the lives of the more than 29 million people living in Texas...
