Maurice Shema

Comb through the records one last time, look for remaining witnesses.

He and his team need the kind of bombshell the courts just can't ignore.

And 58 days before the execution, they just may have one.

From Serial Productions, The Marshall Project, and The New York Times, this is The Last 12 Weeks.

I'm Maurice Shema.

On a Tuesday afternoon, Alvin and I get texts from Greg and his co-counsel Jeremy with links to an emergency Zoom meeting.

In a few weeks, the lawyers will send the courts a giant legal filing with all their best arguments for why they think David Wood is innocent.

This kind of filing has a bunch of rules.

Chief among them, they can't just rehash a bunch of old claims from previous appeals.

They need new arguments.

Jeremy's gathered everyone together for just this reason.

Something new has come in.

A grisly story from a woman in El Paso named Michelle Bradley.

Michelle has a pretty radical theory.

She's not so sure David Wood actually killed all those women.

She thinks someone else was involved, her own father.

So Michelle called the Attorney General's office, the prosecutors in this case.

That office handed over her information to the defense because they're legally required to.

It's called a Brady disclosure.

As Jeremy lays this all out, I'm thinking, oh my God.