CEDAR FALLS
The Man Who Served Someone Else's SentenceBy Mohamed Aslam
Length1h 45m
About this audiobook
In 1998, sixteen-year-old Amy Castellan was found murdered near a small Ohio town's reservoir. Within days, police had a signed confession from a nineteen-year-old they'd interrogated for fourteen hours straight. It took a jury six hours to convict him. It took the system twenty-two years to admit they had the wrong man — while the real killer stayed free.
Cedar Falls: The Man Who Served Someone Else's Sentence traces one wrongful conviction from a coerced confession and a shaky eyewitness ID through decades in prison, to an untested DNA sample that finally rewrote the entire case. A story about what a small town chose to believe, what it cost an innocent man to keep insisting on the truth, and what it took, finally, for someone to listen.
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime
Length1 hr 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Prologue: The Day They Let Him Out
3Chapter One: Amy Castellan
4Chapter Two: The Boy They Arrested
5Chapter Three: Fourteen Hours
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6Chapter Four: The Trial
7Chapter Sixteen: The Defense That Wasn't Enough
8Chapter Thirty-Three: Fenn's Second Act
9Chapter Seventeen: What the Eyewitness Remembered
10Chapter Thirty-Four: What the Jury Didn't Know
11Chapter Five: Twenty-Two Years
12Chapter Twenty-Four: Denied, Every Time
13Chapter Six: The Letter That Started It
14Chapter Seven: The Evidence Nobody Tested
15Chapter Nineteen: The Science That Wasn't Science
16Chapter Eight: The Match
17Chapter Nine: The Hearing
18Chapter Ten: Free
19Chapter Twenty: Building a Life at Forty-Three
20Chapter Twenty-Nine: What Twenty-Two Years Left Behind
21Chapter Eleven: Roger Pemberton
22Chapter Twenty-Five: Who Roger Pemberton Was
23Chapter Twelve: What the Law Actually Owes
24Chapter Twenty-Six: Suing the County
25Chapter Thirteen: Accountability, Delayed and Partial
26Chapter Fourteen: What False Confession Research Has Taught Us
27Chapter Eighteen: Webb's Case in a National Context
28Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Number That Keeps Growing
29Chapter Twenty-One: What Cedar Falls Had to Reckon With
30Chapter Twenty-Eight: How the Story Got Told
31Chapter Twenty-Two: The Ohio Innocence Coalition
32Chapter Thirty-Five: The Speaking Circuit
33Chapter Fifteen: Amy, Remembered
34Chapter Thirty: Amy's Brother
35Chapter Thirty-One: The Amy Castellan Scholarship
36Chapter Twenty-Three: Two Kinds of Waiting
37Chapter Thirty-Two: Three Cases, One Pattern
38Author's Note
39Epilogue: Twenty-Two Years, and What Comes After
THE KING OF BROKEN VOWSMohamed Aslam2h 5m Only with Ultra
THE GIRL IN THE WINTER GARDENMohamed Aslam1h 35m Only with Ultra
THE LAST CALL FROM ASHCROFTMohamed Aslam4h 41m Only with Ultra
THE WOMAN IN ROOM 317Mohamed Aslam4h 30m Only with Ultra
THE HOUSE BEYOND THE TIDEMohamed Aslam1h 46m Only with Ultra
THE LAST LIGHT AT BRIAR COVEMohamed Aslam1h 28m Only with Ultra
THE LIGHTHOUSE BETWEEN USMohamed Aslam1h 39m Only with Ultra
THE WIDOW'S LAST LETTERMohamed Aslam1h 10m Only with Ultra
Provenance Mohamed Aslam54m Only with Ultra
THE LAST TENANTMohamed Aslam1h Only with Ultra
Fatal ExitMohamed Aslam52m Only with Ultra
The Girl Who Never Left Cedar LakeMohamed Aslam50m Only with Ultra
THE HOLLOW HOURMohamed Aslam 1h 3m Only with Ultra
Drowned HarborMohamed Aslam49m Only with Ultra
BRAEBURNMohamed Aslam 54m Only with Ultra
THE LAST VOICE ON BLACKWOOD...Mohamed Aslam 1h 27m Only with Ultra
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BROOKHAVENMohamed Aslam 51m Only with Ultra
MILLHAVENMohamed Aslam52m Only with Ultra
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