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The Innocent Man. 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 ...
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 ...
Like Grisham's nonfiction book, the series follows two murder cases in Ada, Oklahoma, between 1982 and 1984. [4] [5] The cases examine the potential false confessions of Ron Williamson, Dennis Fritz, Tommy Ward, and Karl Fontenot. [1] [6]
Charles Troy Coleman (March 15, 1947 – September 10, 1990) [ 2 ] was an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who was executed in 1990 by the state of Oklahoma. [ 3 ] He was convicted in 1979 of the murder of John Seward, who, along with his wife, was killed by a shotgun blast in rural Muskogee County, when they interrupted ...
Ronald A. White. Personal details. Born. ( 1938-09-05) September 5, 1938 (age 85) Shawnee, Oklahoma, U.S. Education. University of Oklahoma ( BA, LLB) Frank Howell Seay (born September 5, 1938) is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma .
Geronimo bank murders. The Geronimo bank murders occurred on December 14, 1984, when Jay Wesley Neill killed four people during a bank robbery in Geronimo, Oklahoma. Neill was convicted and sentenced to death, and was executed in 2002. His coconspirator, Robert Grady Johnson, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Ron Williamson, Oklahoma. Convicted 1988. Along with Gregory R. Wilhoit, Williamson later became the inspiration for and subject of John Grisham's 2006 non-fiction book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town. [132] Ronald Jones, Illinois. Convicted 1989. Released May 17, 1999. [161] [162] Clarence Richard Dexter, Jr., Missouri.
A former deputy of the Williamson County Sheriff's Office was sentenced to nearly six years for crimes related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.