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
21Chapter Eleven: Roger Pemberton
2Prologue: The Day They Let Him Out
22Chapter Twenty-Five: Who Roger Pemberton Was
3Chapter One: Amy Castellan
23Chapter Twelve: What the Law Actually Owes
4Chapter Two: The Boy They Arrested
24Chapter Twenty-Six: Suing the County
5Chapter Three: Fourteen Hours
25Chapter Thirteen: Accountability, Delayed and Partial
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6Chapter Four: The Trial
26Chapter Fourteen: What False Confession Research Has Taught Us
7Chapter Sixteen: The Defense That Wasn't Enough
27Chapter Eighteen: Webb's Case in a National Context
8Chapter Thirty-Three: Fenn's Second Act
28Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Number That Keeps Growing
9Chapter Seventeen: What the Eyewitness Remembered
29Chapter Twenty-One: What Cedar Falls Had to Reckon With
10Chapter Thirty-Four: What the Jury Didn't Know
30Chapter Twenty-Eight: How the Story Got Told
11Chapter Five: Twenty-Two Years
31Chapter Twenty-Two: The Ohio Innocence Coalition
12Chapter Twenty-Four: Denied, Every Time
32Chapter Thirty-Five: The Speaking Circuit
13Chapter Six: The Letter That Started It
33Chapter Fifteen: Amy, Remembered
14Chapter Seven: The Evidence Nobody Tested
34Chapter Thirty: Amy's Brother
15Chapter Nineteen: The Science That Wasn't Science
35Chapter Thirty-One: The Amy Castellan Scholarship
16Chapter Eight: The Match
36Chapter Twenty-Three: Two Kinds of Waiting
17Chapter Nine: The Hearing
37Chapter Thirty-Two: Three Cases, One Pattern
18Chapter Ten: Free
38Author's Note
19Chapter Twenty: Building a Life at Forty-Three
39Epilogue: Twenty-Two Years, and What Comes After
20Chapter Twenty-Nine: What Twenty-Two Years Left Behind
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