It had been two years since Barbara Bradley Hagerty, the award-winning religion journalist and writer, retired from her 19-year tenure with NPR. Working as a freelancer now, she was looking for her next project and called up her old friend Jim McCloskey in New Jersey. She’d used McCloskey as a source several times for stories on wrongful convictions. Through his work with Centurion Ministries, McCloskey was an expert on the subject; over the previous 35 years he had helped free 63 wrongly convicted men and women from prison. What was the one case, Hagerty asked McCloskey, that still haunted him after all these years?“Oh, that’s easy,” he replied. “Ben Spencer’s case. There’s probably not a day that goes by that I don’t think of Ben.”In…
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