5 UNBELIEVABLE True Crime WRONGFUL CONVICTION Cases

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5 UNBELIEVABLE TRUE CRIME, WRONGFUL CONVICTION CASES In a perfect world, truth & justice always prevail. But we’re far from perfect and so our justice system does falter, sometime so much it can send an innocent person to prison for a very long time. These are 5 Unbelievable True Crime Wrongful CONVICTION CASES. #5 Phillip BivensIn May of 1979, Eva Patterson was at home in forest county, Mississippi when a man broke in. Her husband was away working an oil rig and her four year old son was sleeping inside the next room. Eva was violently raped and had her throat cut, before stumbling through her neighbors garage trying to get help. It was there she collapsed and died - her son, Luke, told police that "a bad boy" killed his mother.#4 Sally ClarkIn England on the night of December 13 1996, Stephen Clark attended a christmas while his wife Sally stayed at home with their infant son, Christopher. She fed him and put him to bed before heading downstairs to make a cup of tea. When she checked back on the baby, Christopher had turned a pale grey color. She called the paramedics in hysterics, and Christopher was officialt pronounced dead at 10:40 P.M. Sally suffered severe depression after the death and started drinking at work. She eventually sought help and by the time she got pregnant and gave birth to her second son, Harry, in November of 1997, she had stopped drinking completley.#3 Nick YarisIt was December 15, 1981; a young woman named Linda Craig was working at the Tri-State Mall when she was abducted. After she was reported missing, her car was found abandoned on a roadway in Chichester, PA. The next day they disovered her body in a church parking lot, half a mile from where her car was found. She had been stabbed multiple times, beaten and sexually assaulted. Four days after the grim discovery, Nick Yaris and a friend were stopped along the highway because they were driving a stolen car. The confrontation turned violent and Yaris was booked for attempted murder of an officer. He was later acquitted on this, but still convicted for stealing a car. At that time, Yaris was a drug addict and in hopes of getting out of prison early, made up a story about knowing who killed Linda Craig.#2 James Bain In Florida, close to Bain's home, a boy was sleeping inside his bedroom with his sister when an intruder broke in and dragged him towards a baseball field to rape him. The boy stumbled out of woods naked and told his uncle what happened, saying the man that raped him was about 17-18 years old, had sideburns and a mustache. When the victim's uncle, an assistant principal at Bain's high school, heard the description, he said he knew someone matching it, James "Jimmy" Bain.#1 James Joseph RichardsonIn October of 1976, James Richardson and his wife, Annie Mae were heading out for work. Annie prepared the children's meal and placed them in the fridge. The oldest children headed to school while the younger kids headed to Betsy Reese's home. Betsy was a neighbor who looked after the kids. By lunchtime she had all the kids in her house, divided the pre made lunches into seven portions and fed them. The eldest children went back to school but after a few hours, they started convulsing and vomiting. They were rushed to the hospital and soon all but one died. When the Richardson's were informed, they were told only one child was in the hospital, they didn't know that all the other six children had died.Support the show

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