Calls From the Inside — Season 1, Episode 1: Calling All Suspects
Crime, Documentary • 44 min • 2 seasons, 16 episodes
Episode synopsis
Newlyweds Tony Cooper and Melinda Kotkins of Gresham, Oregon, are executed. Jail calls during Tony's previous incarceration yield many suspects, including men in love with Melinda. The killer seals his own fate thanks to a jail call to his wife.
About Calls From the Inside
It's an iconic line in any crime story: when a suspect is arrested and gets to make one call. In reality, once a person enters the criminal justice system, there are multiple opportunities to make calls while awaiting trial. The vast majority of those calls are recorded. An admission, a threat, a slip of the tongue, a bribe -- it's all on tape and the suspect knows it, but this doesn't always prevent people from talking and talking. Jailhouse phone calls are used to frame the narrative of murder investigations steeped in mystery.