The Patsy
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A new true crime story about innocence, guilt, and the thin line that divides them when you’re accused of a crime… The Patsy. Narrated by The West Wing’s Joshua Malina. We don't think about journalists being killed in America. But it happens here too. On June 2, 1976, Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, was killed by a car bomb in the parking lot of a hotel in Phoenix – the first assassination of an investigative journalist in modern America. Bolles had been writing about corruption in the state, especially the connection between the dog racing industry and the mafia. Max Dunlap, a local heavy dirt contractor and family man with seven children, was accused and ultimately convicted of involvement in the crime. The new true crime podcast The Patsy investigates his story, through the eyes of his daughter Karen, and Pulitzer-Prize nominated reporter Don Devereaux, who long suspected Max’s innocence, and spent decades finding evidence to support it. A story that goes from street-level hoodlums, to the mafia, to the district attorney’s office, all the way up to the governor’s mansion.

Episode Six

Max Dunlap is free for thirteen years, but freedom doesn't last. In this final episode of The Patsy, the twisting path of Max's story comes to an end....
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Episode Five

What larger forces were at play in the story of Max Dunlap and Don Bolles? This episode peels back the curtain on the machinations of the mafia and po...
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Episode Four

A famous private investigator is hired to help get Max off of Death Row. The Patsy is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced, reported, ...
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Episode Three

The trial of the century for the state of Arizona unfolds, lasting 66 days, with Karen having to sit and listen as her father is painted as a criminal...
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Episode Two

The suspicious death of Don Bolles' editor and confidant, Tom Sanford, only further complicates the aura of conspiracy that hangs in the air around th...
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Episode One

Karen Dunlap Graham recounts a daughter's worst nightmare, as her father Max Dunlap is accused of involvement in the assassination of investigative re...
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