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When a murder victim's son met the man wrongly convicted of the crime

NPR | By Mia Venkat,

Ailsa Chang, Patrick Jarenwattananon

Published July 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM MDT

Reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty and Jay Young speak with NPR's Ailsa Chang about Young's relationship with Benjamin Spencer, the man who was wrongfully imprisoned for his father's murder.

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Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist and a host of NPR’s newsmagazine All Things Considered, as well as NPR’s daily news podcast Consider This.

Patrick Jarenwattananon

Host of NPR Music's A Blog Supreme

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