Judge Esther Salas

Ep 328: When a young woman died after publicly protesting her country’s government, her story took on global resonance This is the Diana Bahador story. Sources for Today's Episode: The Standard IntelliNews The Free Press Journal Iran Wire Associated Press MSN Amnesty Internationa ...  Show more

Ep 327: Reconsidered: 51 - Asunta Fong Yang Basterra Women & Crime: Reconsidered is where we revisit our episode catalog and bring new insights, behind the scenes or updates. Original Airdate: 06/15/21 Adopted as a baby girl by a well-connected, wealthy family this girl seemed to ...  Show more

When Karen Bethea-Shields was in college, she heard a judge say, “No way in the world a Black woman can get raped.” A few years later, in 1975, she helped successfully defend Joan Little—a Black woman—who became the first woman in the U.S. to be found not guilty of murder using t ...  Show more

When Cecilia Gentili was growing up in Argentina, she felt so different from everyone around her that she thought she might be from another planet. “Some of us find our community with our own family and some of us don’t.” Today, Cecilia runs a policy reform organization called Tr ...  Show more

When a family’s financial situation drastically improves, temptation can lurk around every corner. And sometimes, outward appearances completely obscure a less glamorous reality. Chris Foster of Lancashire, England had known a working-class lifestyle for most of his adulthood. In ...  Show more

One woman risked life and limb to escape the grips of a predator. Her goal was simply to make it home to her children alive. There was no way she could have known that ensuring her attacker was found would reveal so much more, and likely save other lives. In working with authorit ...  Show more