Banished: The Story of LeRoy Wilkins with Professor Justin Vipperman

LeRoy Wilkins was convicted of a crime no one could prove. Years later, when the state of Idaho finally pardoned him, it added one condition: he could never set foot in Twin Falls County again. In this episode, Justin Mattson and historian Justin Vipperman trace the strange and painful saga of Wilkins’ legal exile, the only case of its kind in Idaho history, and ask what it says about race, justice, and erasure in small-town America.