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Definition: In a nutshell the Innocence Fraud phenomenon is when an actual, factual guilty, deceptive & manipulative person i.e. killer, rapist, thief, fraudster, embezzler etc, is enabled by other manipulative & deceptive people; including family members, friends, lawyers, academics, former police & former FBI officers, content creator’s, private investigators, forensic scientists, hacks, writers, bloggers, authors, journalists, documentarians, celebrities & others – to lie on their behalf & craft false but convincing narratives in an attempt to give the impression the guilty person is innocent.

The Innocence Fraud phenomenon is a multi million dollar industry of people profiteering off of getting murderers, rapists and other dangerous criminals out of prison, or getting them a “not guilty” verdict during their trials. To be clear, these people are not remotely innocent. Groups like the Innocence Project prey on unsuspecting people to harvest them for cash, get dangerous criminals out of prison and pretend to the world they are helping people, when in reality they are re-victimising the actual people impacted by these crimes!

John M Collins Jr touched on the innocence fraud phenomenon in his 2019 book headed Crime Lab Report: An Anthology on Forensic Science in the Era of Criminal Justice Reform

Crime Lab Report placed itself at considerable risk being a lone voice within the forensic science community that was willing to challenge the rhetoric of innocence activists and their efforts to reform the criminal justice system… .But as evidence emerged that some innocence activists were willing to potentially resort to maliciousness and fraud as a way to secure the exoneration’s of convicted felons, Crime Lab Report launched an investigation that resulted in articles and a public speech that uncovered the dark side of the innocence movement (Excerpts from Abstract of chapter 11).

Below are links to some of our blog series and examples of the innocence fraud phenomenon, as well as podcasts talking about this very real phenomenon;