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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his only nonfiction title as of 2020.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.
Ron Williamson. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to ...
Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 125 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 125 people, 122 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Firearm. Roger Dale Stafford (November 4, 1951 – July 1, 1995) was a convicted serial killer executed for the 1978 murders of the Lorenz Family and six employees of a Sirloin Stockade restaurant in Oklahoma. [ 1] Stafford never acknowledged his guilt, but Stafford's wife, Verna, implicated him in a total of 34 murders in seven different states.
E.C. Mullendore III. Eugene Claremont "E.C." Mullendore III (October 26, 1937 – September 26, 1970) was an heir to one of the largest cattle ranches in Oklahoma. His death in 1970 was one of the most famous unsolved murder mysteries in Oklahoma history. [ 1]
United States. State (s) California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas. John David Norman (October 13, 1927 – May 22, 2011) was an American pedophile and sex offender convicted numerous times between 1960 and 1998 on charges of child molestation and child pornography. Throughout his life, Norman operated various direct mailing ...
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. [ 4] The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census. The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. [ 5] Ada is home to East Central University, and is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation.