Latest Episodes
Episode 01:
Everyone’s Worst Nightmare
On Thanksgiving weekend 1992, four young people left a bar outside St. Cloud, Fla. and were carjacked minutes later. By morning, two were dead, one had survived by playing dead and one had been released. Episode 1 reconstructs the crime, the victims’ final hours and the investigation that followed.
Episode 02:
The Ringleader
Gerard Booker was labeled the ringleader from the start. More than three decades later, he tells the story in his own words — how a day of robbery escalated into kidnapping and murder, what he says he knew about the killings, and how he views his responsibility today.
Episode 03:
The Trials
A brand-new federal carjacking law turned the Osceola murders into a national test case. Episode 3 follows the first federal trial under the statute, the state murder prosecutions that followed, and how four defendants ended up with very different sentences.
Episode 04:
Equal Justice?
Jermaine Foster was sentenced to death at 19, an age now understood to fall within a critical period of brain development. Episode 4 examines how youth, intellectual functioning, and cognitive impairment shaped his case — and how Florida’s death‑penalty record reveals persistent racial disparities. It also re‑evaluates the reliability of key testimony from cooperating defendant Leondra “Manny Boy” Henderson, whose account helped put Jermaine on death row.
Episode 05:
May God Have Mercy
More than 30 years after Jermaine Foster was sentenced to death for the 1992 Osceola County carjacking murders, his legal battle continues. Laws have changed, key testimony has been challenged, and courts have reconsidered earlier rulings. But Jermaine's death sentences remain in place.
In Episode 5, Faded Ink examines the decades of appeals, the evidence used to justify the death penalty, and questions that have emerged from the original investigative records. As Jermaine's legal options become increasingly limited, one question remains: Should he be executed for crimes he committed at 19?
Episode 06:
If Only
The Osceola County carjacking murders can still be traced through a series of moments when one small change might have produced a very different outcome. If only the South Florida drug dealers had never made the trip to Auburndale. If only Anthony Faiella and Mike Rentas had gone home earlier that night. If only the St. Cloud police officer who heard the collision had stepped outside.
In the final episode, Faded Ink revisits those “if onlys” and looks at what became of the people whose lives were forever changed by one night in November 1992. Some have spent decades in prison. Others have returned to life outside its walls. And for the victims and their families, the consequences have lasted a lifetime.