The Trials of Walter Ogrod - The Shocking Murder, So-Called Confessions, and Notorious Snitch That Sent a Man to Death Row

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The Trials of Walter Ogrod - The Shocking Murder, So-Called Confessions, and Notorious Snitch That Sent a Man to Death Row
Feb 3, 2023
Thomas Lowensteen enters the studio to talk about the case of miscarriage of justice of Walter Ogrod.
From Heavy.com
Walter Ogrod was 23 in July 1988 when his neighbor, four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, was sexually assaulted and murdered in Philadelphia. In 1992, he confessed to the crime but during his 1993 trial his attorneys argued that the confession was coerced and that eye-witnesses saw a man that didn’t look like Ogrod at the scene, the Guardian reported.
The trial ended in a mistrial as one juror did not agree with the other 11 to acquit. The second trial in 1996 ended in a conviction and death penalty sentence. In the years following the verdict, Ogrod continued to protest his innocence.
From Wikipedia
in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false. On June 5 of that year, Ogrod's conviction was vacated by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and he was ordered to be released from prison. He had spent more than two decades on death row.
It's a terrifying story of withheld evidence, hearsay and rumour which nearly cost an innocent man his life.
Book: Trials of Walter Ogrod: The Shocking Murder, So-Called Confessions, and Notorious Snitch That Sent a Man to Death Row
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