About this episode

The episode explores the murder of Joseph Woodside in New Hampshire and the subsequent fight for justice by the convicted college student and his family.

In November of 1979, a man was found beaten to death along a quiet trail in a New Hampshire college town. Within a day, police had a suspect, but the case was hardly open and shut. The college student convicted of the murder – and the family who stood by him – were prepared to spend a lifetime fighting to prove his innocence. They believed the investigation narrowed too quickly, that key questions went unanswered, and that the truth had yet to fully surface. But before the courts could decide what came next, the Atlantic Ocean wrote the final chapter of this story.

Topics covered

• murder
• innocence
• investigation
• true crime
• legal battle
• family support

Keywords

• Joseph Woodside
• New Hampshire
• murder case
• innocence
• 1979
• true crime
• investigation
• Atlantic Ocean

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New Hampshire, Atlantic Ocean

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