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 03:
The Trials
A brand-new federal carjacking law turned the Osceola murders into a national test case. Episode Three 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 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 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:
If Only
More than 30 years later, the Osceola carjacking murders can still be traced through a remarkable series of moments when one small change might have produced a completely different ending. If only the South Florida drug dealers had never come to Auburndale that day. If only Anthony Faiella and Mike Rentas had gone home after their night in Orlando. If only the St. Cloud police officer who heard the collision had stepped outside.
In the final episode, Faded Ink looks back at those “if onlys” — and forward to what became of the people whose lives were changed by one night in November 1992.