Vindicated
Vindicated crisscrosses the country illuminating the journeys of exonerees from before they were convicted to well after their exoneration.
Episode Guide
Season 1
- Episode 1: Tim Cole, Part 1
Aired: Dec 4, 2012After receiving an honorable discharge from the military, Timothy Cole returned to college in Lubbock, TX, where he was wrongfully accused and convicted of being a rapist, leading to his untimely death in prison.
- Episode 2: Tim Cole, Part 2
Aired: Dec 11, 2012After receiving an honorable discharge from the military, Timothy Cole returned to college in Lubbock, TX, where he was wrongfully accused and convicted of being a rapist, leading to his untimely death in prison.
- Episode 3: Herman Atkins
Aired: Dec 18, 2012While attempting to clear up another legal matter in Los Angeles, CA, Herman Atkins was misidentified by a rape victim as her attacker and subsequently spent 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Season 2
- Episode 1: Thomas Haynesworth, Part 1
Aired: Jul 13, 2014While walking to the store in Richmond, VA, to buy groceries for his mother's Sunday dinner, 18-year-old Thomas Haynesworth was misidentified as a serial rapist and didn't return home for the next 27 years.
- Episode 2: Thomas Haynesworth, Part 2
Aired: Jul 13, 2014While walking to the store in Richmond, VA, to buy groceries for his mother's Sunday dinner, 18-year-old Thomas Haynesworth was misidentified as a serial rapist and didn't return home for the next 27 years.
- Episode 3: Darryl Hunt
Aired: Jul 20, 2014As a kid born on the "wrong side" of the tracks, Darryl Hunt became an easy target for accusations and prosecutorial misconduct in Winston-Salem, NC, where a young, white woman was brutally murdered.
- Episode 4: Arthur Carmona
Aired: Jul 20, 2014When 16-year-old Arthur Carmona decided to visit his friend in Costa Mesa, CA, to play video games, he never imagined that he would be mistakenly identified as an armed robber and spend the next two years in prison.
- Episode 5: Timothy Atkins
Aired: Jul 27, 2014After a young husband was robbed and murdered on New Year's Day in Venice, CA, Tim Atkins erroneously became the main suspect when a neighborhood drug addict claimed that Tim was the culprit, leading to a 20 year prison bid.
- Episode 6: Charles Chatman
Aired: Jul 27, 2014Charles Chatman of Dallas, TX, was wrongfully convicted of rape and sentenced to 99 years in prison after his neighbor mistakenly identified him as her attacker and his family failed to fully support his alibi.
- Episode 7: Joyce Ann Brown, Part 1
Aired: Aug 3, 2014While trying to make ends meet as a receptionist at a furrier in Dallas, TX, Joyce Ann Brown became entangled in a web of robbery, murder, and misconduct when a woman of the same name became wanted for a crime.
- Episode 8: Joyce Ann Brown, Part 2
Aired: Aug 3, 2014While trying to make ends meet as a receptionist at a furrier in Dallas, TX, Joyce Ann Brown became entangled in a web of robbery, murder, and misconduct when a woman of the same name became wanted for a crime.