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On Their Behalf is a True Crime podcast highlighting underrepresented cases of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and beyond. Hosted by Aja Hamilton & Devon Balsamo-Gillis.
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1In the Season 4 Finale, Aja tells Devon the case of Abraham Lee Shakespeare, a Florida man who disappears after winning the Lottery.
In 2018, Kierra Coles was pregnant with her first child and on a great career path. And then, she vanished. Almost every step in the investigation came up with nothing. So, what happened to Kierra Coles?
In 2018, Kenyatta Barris and her two children were violently attacked by her boyfriend and their father, Ronnie Oneal. What followed was a bizarre, traumatic rigamarole.
This week Aja tells the case on behalf a Beverly Jackson, a single mother living Florida who goes missing and is found days later dead in the trunk of her car with no visible sign of how she died.
TRIGGER WARNING: This episode is particularly graphic and violent. Listener discretion advised.
In 1980s Japan, high schooler Junko Furuta was kidnapped and held prisoner for 40 days. The brutality of her murder shocked the Japanese public, but gained little attention overseas.
This week Aja tells Devon the case of the Charleston Race Massacre. June 17th, 2015 Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and murdered 9 innocent people attending a bible study.
In 1980, Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was brutally murdered in Toledo, Ohio. Her case remained unsolved for nearly 23 years, until shocking new evidence gave the case a sinister new angle.
In the season 4 premiere, Aja and Devon discuss the Tulsa Race Massacre and context in which the worst case of racial violence in American history came to be.
South Central Los Angeles experienced a slew of murders across 3 decades. Listen as Devon and Aja spend the season finale detailing the reign of terror of the Grimm Sleeper.
In 1961, Herbert Lee was shot point blank in front of a crowd of people. His killer went free. Listen to find out just exactly how that came to be.
In this week's episode, Aja discusses the death of Deborah Danner, a 66-year-old black woman who was shot by police while she was suffering from a mental health crisis.
In 1979, 12 women were murdered in a string of killings in the small neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston. Aja and Devon discuss why so many women were targeted in such a small town.
In this week's episode, Devon discusses the case of Joan Little, who faced the death penalty for killing her jailor after he sexually assaulted her, and the cultural impact of the 1975 trial.
This week Aja tells the case of a pregnant mother of a toddler who goes missing in Florida.
In 1991, Torriano Jackson was shot and killed. Valentino Dixon served 27 years for his murder, but according to multiple eyewitnesses, he wasn't the shooter. Find out how Golf Digest and Michelle Obama were involved with Valentino's exoneration. Pics and sources on instagram @ontheirbehalf_pod.
CURTIS FLOWERS EPISODE: https://anchor.fm/dna-podcast7/episodes/Ep--10-The-Tardy-Furniture-Murders-and-the-Trials-of-Curtis-Flowers-ed3n7s
Written and edited by: Devon Balsamo-Gills
Music by: Holly Amber Church
Social Media: Kelcie Gruenberg
This week Aja tells the story on behalf of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was beaten to death by two white autoworkers in 1982.
Written and edited by: Aja Hamilton
Produced by: Devon Balsamo-Gillis & Aja Hamilton
Music by: Holly Amber Church
Social Media: Kelcie Gruenberg
This week's episode, Devon discusses all that we know of the ongoing case surrounding the mysterious death of 15 year old Quawan Bobby Charles.
This week Aja tells the story on behalf of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African American girl who was shot while sleeping in her Kentucky home by plain clothes police officers in the middle of the night.
In the Season 2 finale, Aja tells the story on Behalf of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's local grocery store.
This week Aja and Devon tell the case on behalf of Celia A Slave, a 19 year old enslaved woman who was found guilty of murdering her slave owner Robert Newson, the man who raped her repeatedly for 5 years.
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👍 great work. Thanks.
great show!! keep up the good work.