Hush: Season 2 Trailer
Hush is an investigative podcast from OPB, uncovering the buried truth about critical stories in the Pacific Northwest. In season 2, Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas investigate the 2019 death of Sarah Zube...
24 Sep 20253min
‘Hush’ bonus episode: Jesse Johnson was wrongfully convicted. Now, he’s suing
On September 5th, 2023, Jesse Johnson walked out of jail a free man. He’d spent a quarter century incarcerated, including 17 years on death row, for a crime he always insisted he didn’t commit: the 19...
24 Sep 202515min
Episode 9: State of Denial
Jesse Johnson is free, but what has changed in Oregon? Experts who have closely examined the state’s racist history say very little. A close look at a murder on a train in the 1940s, a lynching in Sou...
2 Okt 202442min
Hush presents: Lost Patients
Today we're sharing the first episode of 'Lost Patients,' a deeply reported podcast from KUOW and the Seattle Times examining our complicated system for treating people with severe mental illness – a ...
30 Sep 202448min
Episode 8: A History of Violence
If Jesse Johnson did not kill Harriet Thompson, then who did? It’s a question police and prosecutors rarely - if ever - considered. We take a deep look at three men who all had connections to Thompson...
25 Sep 202455min
Episode 7: The Nature of Certain Lies
To this day, Det. Mike Quakenbush believes Jesse Johnson is guilty of murder. Even when confronted with significant evidence pointing away from Johnson, Quakenbush said there is no doubt. But what sta...
25 Sep 202436min
Episode 6: Two Strangers
Police and prosecutors have always insisted they thoroughly investigated Harriet Thompson’s murder, but some people who did not appear at Jesse Johnson’s trial have insisted for 25 years that they hav...
18 Sep 202437min
Episode 5: One Little Drop
The late 1990s and early 2000s were a time of rapidly evolving forensic science. Jurors at Jesse Johnson’s trial heard a lot about how forensic scientists at the Salem Police and Oregon State Police d...
18 Sep 202440min
