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Episode 5: "True Crime on Trial"

Episode 5: "True Crime on Trial"

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Grace & Kyleigh go to court. Three experts — researcher Kat Albretch, lawyer Laura Menninger, and professor Emily Murphy — help make sense of the tangled relationship between true crime media and criminal justice.


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