What if no one was coming to save you?

On June 28, 2022, we are releasing a new podcast: Panic Button. 

THE PODCAST PROFILES THE TULSA TRUE CRIME STORY OF APRIL WILKENS. 

This is a podcast about a true crime story unlike any other--only there's no whodunnit, and there's no whydunnit. We know exactly who killed Terry Carlton on April 28th, 1998. And we know exactly why. Because she told us--April Wilkens told anyone who would listen that she defended her own life that night. And yet--even in the face of overwhelming evidence and testimony--the jury gave her LIFE. 

Attorneys Leslie Briggs and Colleen McCarty deep dive into the facts of the case, and the phenomenon of criminalized survivors in Oklahoma prisons.   

This season on Panic Button: Can money buy you a murder conviction? Could April have been an intelligent woman who also made extremely complicated choices that put her life in danger? Could April have been a traumatized abuse victim and mental patient and still have been smart enough to plot a premeditated murder? Can we look at the mistakes of our past and reckon with the injustices of a sexist, cruel justice system? Has our understanding of domestic violence changed enough to accept that 22 years is long enough to serve on a crime for which you were simply defending yourself? When power and money buy you everything, the voices of those you’ve oppressed will eventually grow to a voluminous roar.