n 1954, a Japanese court convicted a man of murdering a six-year-old girl on the strength of his own confession, and almost nothing else. Thirty-four years and eight months later, a different court took it back.

Content warning: this episode covers the murder of a six-year-old child in Shimada, Japan, in 1954. She is referred to only by her given name, Hisako, in line with the show's policy of not naming child victims. The original indictment also included a charged sexual-assault offense tied to that six-year-old victim, under a Japanese statute since repealed; it is named once, without further detail. The episode also covers strangulation, a wrongful death sentence, thirty-four years and eight months in custody, and a subject's documented history of mild intellectual disability and past suicide attempts, discussed only as ...