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Fast forward more than a decade. I received a letter.

鈥淗i my name is Christopher Sheriffe,鈥� it began. The correspondence came from a lifer at Collins Bay, a penitentiary in Kingston. 鈥淚 was convicted of first-degree murder. I am messaging you because there was a lot of wrongdoing in my trial and I would like to shed a light on it.鈥�

Reporters get a lot of calls, emails and letters asking us to check something out. This system is broken. That public official is on the take. This agency is not protecting the public. It鈥檚 where many stories come from.聽

Sheriffe, 34,聽reached out to me because he and his family had read my ongoing investigation of the Barry and Honey Sherman murders, and a previous case, Death in a Small Town. I was tough on the cops in both, and he said there were problems with how his case was investigated and prosecuted.

This was not the first correspondence I had received from someone in prison, but it was the specific details Sheriffe provided in his letter that caught my eye, and my interest.

鈥淚n my case, they brought forth false DNA, which wasn鈥檛 known at the time,鈥� Sheriffe wrote, providing other issues that he hoped I would explore, including how evidence from two mysterious confidential informants was used at his trial.

Sheriffe has maintained his innocence since the night he was arrested. In one of our first conversations I asked him if he was a killer. 鈥淣ever was, never will be,鈥� he said.

The justice system disagrees. 鈥淗e was a feared person,鈥� said the young 海角社区官网police officer who at the eleventh hour brought out the evidence from confidential informants that helped convict.聽

I decided to investigate. What I found led to Murder on Mount Olive, the fourth season of the 海角社区官网Star鈥檚 Suspicion series. The 10-episode podcast launches today.

It鈥檚 a murder story. A police procedural story. A legal story. Above all it鈥檚 a story about our justice system and one man鈥檚 fight, with the help of his mother Marjorie, to be heard.