“Wrong Man” is a six-episode series from acclaimed award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost Trilogy) that examines cases of inmates who have been incarcerated for decades and claim they’re innocent.

Three cases are re-investigated, each over the course of two episodes, with the help of an esteemed and engaging group of experts: a renowned civil rights attorney, a former prosecutor, a retired NCIS investigator, and a member of Detroit’s elite Homicide Task Force. Together, they are joined by local investigators who take us on a vérité journey to hunt for new evidence, track down witnesses, interview often reluctant law enforcement, and spend time with the families of the incarcerated.

The series takes an in-depth look at the following cases. Evaristo Salas was 16 years old in 1997 when he was sentenced as an adult to 33 years in Washington state prison. His conviction for murder was based on two witnesses, including a confidential police informant who came forward to our investigators and recanted his testimony on camera. After hours of taped police interrogation, Christopher Tapp confessed to killing and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old girl in Idaho; Tapp says he was coerced by police and, despite the fact that the DNA at the scene belonged to someone else, the jury could not see beyond his confession. Curtis Flowers is on death row; he’s been a defendant for two decades, tried by the same Mississippi District Attorney six times for committing a quadruple murder he says he had no part in.

“Wrong Man” digs relentlessly into each case, going beyond questions about the guilt or innocence of three men. Academy Award® nominated and Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker Berlinger continues to dedicate his filmmaking career to exposing abuses and problems in the criminal justice system.