Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby: talented Journalist Amanda Knox, the subject of many posts on this Blog over the years, uses her horrific experience of a notorious prosecution and wrongful conviction- as well as her experience as a talented journalist, to explore the Lucy Letby case, in a podcast produced by iHeart, called, "The Case Everyone Thinks Is Closed..."Doubt: The Case of Lucy Letby." In this substack entry she explains her motivation, noting that: "The trial, conviction, and unprecedented sentencing ignited a national firestorm. Headlines branded Letby a monster. Public anger was swift and fierce. The story seemed to resolve into certainty. But I know personally how fragile that kind of certainty can be, and how factors beyond the evidence can distort our thinking and incentivize people to look for scapegoats instead of the truth", and that, Doubt examines a difficult and essential question: is this case truly as clear-cut as public consensus suggests? Or are there unresolved issues that merit deeper examination?

Listen to the Trailer and Episode 1 here

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE:

SUBSTACK: "The Case Everyone Thinks Is Closed"...Doubt: The Case of Lucy Letby, published byAmanda Knox, on February 24, 2026.

GIST:"Hi everyone! I'm excited to share with you something I've been working on for two years now. My new podcast series, Doubt,  takes an unflinching look at a case that stunned the United Kingdom and the world: the conviction of neonatal nurse Lucy Letby for the murder of seven premature babies and the attempted murder of seven more. When I saw how Letby was being cast as evil by the British press, I felt that uncomfortable shock of recognition.

GIST: "The trial, conviction, and unprecedented sentencing ignited a national firestorm. Headlines branded Letby a monster. Public anger was swift and fierce. The story seemed to resolve into certainty. But I know personally how fragile that kind of certainty can be, and how factors beyond the evidence can distort our thinking and incentivize people to look for scapegoats instead of the truth.

Doubt examines a difficult and essential question: is this case truly as clear-cut as public consensus suggests? Or are there unresolved issues that merit deeper examination?

The entire substack can be read at: 

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system.   Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan: Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

 FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!

Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;