Nebraska & Oregon: When the Wrong Man Was Punished

Podcast: Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast · Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

Season 40: America's 250th — fifty states, fifty crimes, two hundred and fifty years. Tonight is a double feature: Nebraska and Oregon. Two frontier murder convictions. Two men the justice system got wrong. May 1876. A horse breeder is found killed with an axe in a barn loft in Seward, Nebraska. His brother Warren Clough stands over the body — the first murder victim in Seward County history. Within weeks, the community convicts Warren on nothing but circumstance. He is sentenced to hang. Fifteen years later, the prosecutor, the judge, and the jurors who...