On January 5, 2006, fourteen-year-old Martin Lee Anderson entered the Bay County Sheriff’s Office juvenile boot camp in Panama City, Florida. Less than twenty-four hours later, he was dead.

This episode of Unsealed investigates the cover-up that followed Anderson’s death: a surveillance tape hidden from the public, a medical examiner’s questionable ruling of “natural causes,” and high-level officials who worked to protect the system instead of a child. When the video finally became public, outrage swept Florida—students staged sit-ins at Governor Jeb Bush’s office, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton joined protests in Tallahassee, and lawmakers were forced to act.

Seven guards and a nurse were indicted for aggravated manslaughter, but in a stunning 2007 trial they were all acquitted after just 90 minutes of jury d ...