DEATH COUNTY, PA (2025). The county jail in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has always had a bad reputation. It’s filthy, overcrowded, and violent. But when young, seemingly healthy inmates start dropping dead, local newspaper reporter Joshua Vaughn begins to investigate. Soon, a former inmate and a local preacher have joined him in searching for a truth that could upend the status quo forever. Writer and producer. (Wondery)
SUSPECT: FIVE SHOTS IN THE DARK (2023). In the fall of 2022, Leon Benson had been in prison for a quarter century for a murder he insisted he did not commit. Leon had an alibi and no plausible motive, and the police had received multiple tips that another man had pulled the trigger. But in a criminal justice system where clearing cases can trump getting it right, Leon never had a chance. With the help of attorney Lara Bazleon, the Suspect team dives into Leon’s case and chronicles the effort to finally free him. Writer and producer. (Campside Media, Wondery)
PROJECT UNABOM (2022). In September 1995, the Washington Post published a 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto written by a mysterious domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber. Seven months later, a team of FBI agents detained a former math professor named Ted Kaczynski outside his tiny off-the-grid cabin in the Montana woods and would soon charge him with perpetrating the UNABOM attacks. How did Kaczynski become the most notorious serial bomber in American history? What was behind his ideas? And why did it take the FBI 18 years to find him? Host, writer, and producer. (Pineapple Street Studios, Apple TV+)
SUSPECT: SEASON 2 (2022). A 12-year-old girl named Jonelle Matthews vanishes one December night from her home in the Colorado plains. For decades, there are no answers. Then a local man steps forward claiming he knows what happened in the case. Is he just an obsessive true-crime fan? Or Jonelle’s kidnapper and killer? Writer and producer. (Campside Media, Wondery)
CHAMELEON: SCAM LIKELY (2022) When a team of federal investigators uncovers a rash of scam calls bilking everyday men and women out of thousands of dollars, they launch an investigation to uncover who and what are responsible. Soon, they’re unraveling a multinational conspiracy and targeting the shadowy syndicate behind it. Writer and producer. (Campside Media, Sony Music Entertainment)
SUSPECT (2021). The investigation of a brutal killing at a Halloween party becomes a story of cutting-edge forensic technology, mislaid justice, race and policing, and the irreversible choices that cops and prosecutors make every day in cities and towns across the country. Writer and producer. (Campside Media, Wondery)
WITNESSED: BORDERLANDS (2021). The tall-but-true West Texas tale of a charismatic outlaw, an iconic small-town sheriff, and the record-setting drug bust that ensnared them both. Writer and producer. (Campside Media, Sony Music Entertainment)
OVER MY DEAD BODY (2019). A picture-perfect marriage goes badly awry. Murder. Miami. The Maestro. Writer and reporter. (Wondery)
UNDERDOG (2018). On the campaign trail with Beto O’Rourke in the biggest, most expensive Senate race in the history of Texas. Host, writer, and reporter. (Texas Monthly, Pineapple Street Media)
Episode 1
On The Road Again
Episode 2
Red State
Episode 3
The Sleeping Giant
Episode 4
The Final Push
Episode 5
The Caravan and the Blue Wave
Episode 6
36 Hours in El Paso
Eric Benson 