Hippie Topanga mom turned sleuth to aid convicted killer. Could she help set him free?
When the COVID shutdown began, Jessica Jacobs Dirschel, a mother of four in Topanga Canyon, was one of the many millions of people who staved off boredom by binging on Netflix.Five hours into a documentary series about wrongful convictions, Dirschel hit pause and Googled the phone number of an attorney on the show who worked on exoneration cases.When the lawyer answered, Dirschel said, “I want to help.”Jofama Coleman had served 14 years of a life sentence for murder when the pandemic lockdown came to the state prison in…