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The Innocent Man: Created by Ross M. Dinerstein, Clay Tweel. With Heather McPhaul, John Grisham, J.J. Arends, Garrett Davis. The story of Ron Williamson, a man who sat on Oklahoma's death row for 11 years for a crime he didn't commit.
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- 2018-12-14
- Documentary, Crime
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The Innocent Man is an American true crime documentary television series based on John Grisham's 2006 book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. The six-episode first season debuted on Netflix on December 14, 2018. Like Grisham's nonfiction book, the series follows two murder cases in Ada, Oklahoma, between 1982 and 1984.
- The 1982 Murder of Debbie Sue Carter
- The 1984 Murder of Donna Denice Haraway
- How The Cases Took A Wrong Turn
The body of 21-year-old Debbie Sue Carter was found in her apartment in Ada in December 1982. She had been raped, murdered and left with words written on her body in ketchup. Five years after Carter’s murder, authorities pursued Ron Williamson and his best friend Dennis Fritz in the case. Both men were well-known around Ada, particularly Williamson...
About two years before Williamson and Fritz received their wrongful convictions, two other men in Ada were given life sentences for the murder of Donna Denice Haraway. Haraway, 24, disappeared in April 1984 from her job at a local convenience store. Her body was discovered in 1986 in a town about 30 miles east of Ada. About five months prior to the...
Grisham, who executive-produced The Innocent Manand appears throughout the series, says the events in the story would be unbelievable if he’d written them in a novel because it’s hard to imagine an entire justice system breaking down as it did in these cases. He concludes that the immense pressure put on law enforcement officials in a small town li...
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Oct 10, 2006 · The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham. The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
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The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free.
Two murders that shook the small town of Ada, Okla., in the 1980s gained national attention and even led to renowned author John Grisham writing a nonfiction book about the...
