Maurice Shema
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415 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Maurice Shema’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 7 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 6.
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This is Maurice Shema, the host of a new podcast from Serial Productions, The Marshall Project, and The New York Times.
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Last year, I spent three months embedded with a Capitol defense team.
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Their client had been on death row for more than 30 years, and now his execution date had been set.
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I followed along as the lawyers tried to prove something nobody had successfully done in three decades, that one of Texas' most notorious serial killers was actually innocent.
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The last 12 weeks.
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In the fall of 2024, a criminal defense lawyer got the kind of phone call that most lawyers can only dream about.
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It concerned a client of his, a guy named David Wood, one of Texas' most notorious serial killers.
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He was sitting on death row, months away from his execution.
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The man on the phone, George Hall, thought something corrupt had gone down in David Woods' trial.
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It had happened more than 30 years ago, but for 30 years he'd said nothing, mostly because he was afraid to.
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For those 30 years he'd been on parole, he worried if he aggravated the authorities, they might find some way to send him back to prison.
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But now his parole had ended, and George Hall was ready to tell his story, which he'd eventually put into a sworn declaration.
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That story goes like this.
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Back in the late 80s, George Hall and David Wood were locked up together at the Easton unit in Texas.
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George Hall was in for murder.
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David Wood was in for rape.
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They weren't particularly close.
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David Wood was quiet, didn't talk much.
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