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He was an actor and writer, known for The Goonies (1985), Free Willy (1993) and The Fall Guy (1981). He was married to Peggy Walton-Walker. He died on 30 December 1996 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA. Born June 29, 1935. Died December 30, 1996 (61) Add photos, demo reels. Add to list.
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Apr 12, 2024 · PUBLISHED: April 12, 2024 at 6:41 p.m. | UPDATED: April 13, 2024 at 10:16 a.m. Keith Miller III, who played two seasons at Colorado and the past two years at Texas A&M-Commerce died in his...
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Aug 10, 2021 · Keith Walker was released after 29 years in prison when the Illinois attorney general’s office dropped the murder charge against him. ... Burge, who died in 2018, was a commander on the South ...
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Apr 12, 2024 · Texas A&M-Commerce wide receiver Keith Miller III died in his apartment near campus on April 11, the school said in a press release. Authorities are continuing to investigate the cause of death. Texas Football Life on Twitter/X was the first to report Miller’s death.
- The Murder of Shawn Wicks
- Walker Tortured at Area 3
- A Faulty Identification
- Walker’s Confession
- Convicted and Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Torture Allegations Mount Against Burge and His “Midnight Crew”
- Walker’s Prolonged Fight For Freedom
- New Agreement and Release
Walker’s ordeal began in the early morning hours of June 3, 1991 when 18-year-old Shawn Wicks was shot four times on the South Side of Chicago after resisting a robbery attempt while he was attempting to purchase marijuana. The shooting received significant media attention because Wicks was a white suburban youth who was shot in a high-crime neighb...
Later that day, McWeeny located Walker and took him to the Area 3 Police Station. What happened there would be in dispute for nearly 30 years. Walker claimed that detectives kicked and beat him and on four occasions administered electric shocks from a hand-cranked generator to get him to sign a confession admitting that he shot Wicks. This device w...
McWeeny said that on June 5, 1991, two days after the shooting, he took photos of Walker, Ross, Bell and Trice to Cook County hospital where Wicks was conscious, but fighting for his life. Wicks was unable to speak because he was intubated. McWeeny established a communication system—he would ask questions and Wicks would squeeze McWeeny’s hand once...
On July 2, 1991, Walker was arrested and was subjected to another round of interrogation. He denied knowing Bell, Ross, or Trice and again denied any involvement in the shooting. However, Walker eventually signed a prepared confession, later saying that he feared further torture if he did not cooperate. That statement was signed after an interview ...
On December 6, 1994, a jury in Cook County Circuit Court convicted Ross of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery. That same day, Walker went to trial and chose to have the case decided by Judge Ralph Reyna without a jury. The evidence against him was almost solely based on his confession and the testimony of McWeeny and Simmons about thei...
Over time, scores of other defendants raised similar claims of torture, including mock executions, electric shocks to genitals from a hand-cranked generator, and beatings. In one case, a suspect suffered burns after he was strapped naked to a radiator until he confessed. The allegations of torture all focused on Lt. Burge and detectives under his c...
In March 2004, Walker, acting without a lawyer, filed a petition for post-conviction relief alleging several grounds, including actual innocence and the improper admission of his coerced “confession.” The petition was assigned to Cook County Circuit Court Judge Nicholas Ford, who dismissed it without a hearing. Walker appealed. During the appeal, i...
In 2019, the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law School took on Walker’s case. In April 2020, project attorneys Lauren Myerscough-Mueller and Sean Starr requested that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker grant Walker an immediate release because his health conditions made him particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. In subsequent supplemen...
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Aug 20, 2020 · CHICAGO (AP) -- After nearly 30 years behind bars, a man who claimed he was tortured into confessing to a murder he didn't commit by detectives working under Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge is now...
Ledger died in January 2008 from an accidental overdose as a result of prescription drug abuse.
