The Innocent Man - Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Century, 2006. Good secondhand condition.

In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail waitress in Ada, Oklahoma, was raped and murdered, and for five years the case went unsolved. In 1987 Ron Williamson, a one time big league player fallen on hard times, and his friend Dennis Fritz were finally arrested in 1987. With no physical evidence, the prosecutor's case was built on junk science and jailhouse gossip. Fritz was given a life sentenced, and Williamson sent to death row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you...