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Sweet dreams of you
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Every night�
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I go through
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[police radio speaking]
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Why can't I forget you
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And start my life anew...
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-[heavy breathing]
-[gunshot]
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...Instead of having sweet dreams
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About you
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[Kim Bayars] I love the community.
I moved here at 15 years old. I love Ada.
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It can be a small, tight-knit community,
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but you've got to stay under the radar
of the cops.
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You just got to lie low.
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[Sandy]I knew Tommy very well.
Tommy is a very good guy.
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As a matter of fact,
I had Tommy in my car--
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I used to work at KFC.
I was 13, started to work there.
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And I give him a ride to his house,
and he lived at Portland Parke...
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which was not a good neighborhood.
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The police had it out for him
because they were dirt-poor,
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so they tried
to blame everything on him.
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I was bringing Tommy back from his house
and the police pulled me over,
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not for anything I had done,
but they wanted Tommy.
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They dragged Tommy out of my car
and started beating the hell out of him
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with their billy clubs
because they said he had done something,
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and he had done absolutely nothing.
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And they took him to jail,
and he had done nothing.
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It's the social standing, they were poor.
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And in Ada...
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if you're poor, you're nothing.
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Tommy, how far do you live
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from the power plantwhere Denice Haraway was killed?
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I live about...It's maybe about two blocks.
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-Not too far at all.-Okay.
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-Are you familiar with the area?-Across the highway. Yes, sir.
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[RObert] According to Tommy's description
on the tape,
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they put her body in this shack,
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and burned the shack
to get rid of her body.
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He told me,"We've got to get rid of her and all."
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And asked me if I knew a good placeto get rid of her.
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And I told him about a houseand about this ditch down by the...
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Sandy River.
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[police siren wailing]
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So, some of the police are dispatched
to this place,
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a few miles on the outskirts of Ada.
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And there's no shack there.
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There is a cinder block rectangle
that was, like, the base of a shack.
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And they get down on their hands and knees
with flashlights, looking for anything
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that might have survived this burning.
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And while they're doing that,
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the fellow who owns the land,
he's sort of a farmer, rural type,
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and he owns the land.
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He comes out in the middle of the night,
and he sees all these police cars there
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and he says, "Hey, fellas,
what are you guys doing here
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in the middle of the night?"
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And one of the officers tells this fellow,
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"Oh, they're looking for pieces
of Denice Haraway's body."
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And the fellow says,
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"Well, you're not going
to find Denice Haraway in there."
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He says, "That shack was such an eyesore
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I personally burned it down
two years ago."
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So, they finally found her body...
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JUDGE TOM LANDRITH
PONTOTOC COUNTY DISTRICT COURT (RET.)
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and it was not where Ward
and Fontenot had told them
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where the body was.
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Were they had told them where the body was
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was an old burned�house
out towards the cement plant.
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And then,
they find her body 30 miles away.
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In a pasture, in�Hughes County.
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[Robert] A fellow in a town about...
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15 to 20 miles outside of Ada.
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He saw something light under some bushes,
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and he pulled the bushes awayand there was a skeleton.
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He didn't know what the hell it was,
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but he called the sheriff's office
and told them,
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"There's a body here, just bones."
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[Barret] The body had been there for,
I think, a year and a half,
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and it was pretty deteriorated then.
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The clothing and shoes were in scraps.
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[Robert]
They took the body in for an autopsy.
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Dr. Haraway, her father-in-law,
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had tooth records
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because he was her dentist.
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And they matched.
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So, finally they had found the body
of Denice Haraway.
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I was somewhat relieved,
thinking that now that a body is found,
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maybe there is some additional
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information or clues
that would lead us somewhere else.
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[Tommy]In the confession it was stated,
you know, that we planned to go out there
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and rob the store,
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and we took her,
so she couldn't identify us.
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And took her a mile west of Ada
to the power plant
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where we raped her
and stabbed her to death
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and dumped the body a mile west of Ada.
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The reason why the stabbing come up
was because I used to collect knives.
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I guess somebody might have told them,
you know, about me collecting knives.
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That's how the stabbing come in, you know?
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It was by the police telling me
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that's what they believed
that happened, you know?
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There's a leading expert
at the University of Oklahoma
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and he came out and he said,
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"The cause of death
when they had her autopsy
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was a bullet in her head."
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-[heavy breathing]
-[gunshot]
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[Barret] A single gunshot wound
to the head with a small caliber weapon,
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and there was no evidence
of stab wounds on any of the bones.
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[Robert] Never in the trial hadany gun been mentioned or any bullets.
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And no mention of eitherof them having a gun,
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which they didn't,but it didn't come up.
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[Tommy]
Once they found the body, I thought,
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"Well, now they're going
to really say we didn't do it,"
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because now, here, you know,
they found the body
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in a whole different location.
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You know, 'cause we was accusedof taking her a mile west of Ada,
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and now, here, they find her45 miles east of Ada.
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And plus a whole different homicidebecause they're saying she'd been shot
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in the head.
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And I thought that right therewas gonna prove that we didn't do it.
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They do find her remains.
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I mean, a hunter finds them.
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They're, like, two counties away
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from any place they have ever said
the body might be.
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There are scraps of red and white fabric
and red earrings,
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even though they said she was wearing
the purple-flowered shirt.
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Everything about their confession
has been proven wrong
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by the discovery of the body.
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[Robert] And at a news conference,when they had to announce
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the finding of her body,which was a big story,
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as you can imagine.
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Peterson was asked,
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"They were convictedof stabbing her to death.
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Now she's got a bullet in her head
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and no stab marks accordingto the experts.
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You still think those are
accurate confessions?"
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And he said, "Oh, they lied
about everything else on the tapes,
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so they lied
about how they killed her, too."
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[Stacy] I think the first timethat I can remember hearing of the case
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probably came as a journalist.
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I may have heard about it
when she disappeared,
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and we probably actually
reported on her disappearance.
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But I got really involved with the case,
covering it every day,
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from the preliminary hearing on.
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There are things that are going
to be forever etched in my mind
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and things�that have literally haunted me
for 30 years in this case.
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As I was covering the preliminary hearing,
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I'm watching a video tape of Tommy Ward
and he said that he was at a party,
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and all of the sudden
I kind of the light bulb went off,
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and I thought,�"That's a party I was at."
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The chief of detectives,
Dennis Smith, was in the hall,
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and I went to Dennis and I said,
"Dennis, I believe that
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the alibi that Tommy gave
was a party that I was at."
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And when I went out in the hallway
and told this to Dennis,
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he blew me off, said,
"I don't want to hear it,"
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and he turned around and he walked off.
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And I kind of sat there dumbfounded
for a moment and then I thought,
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[tsks] "There's something wrong here."
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I later went on
to actually testify in the trial
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about that whole incident
with Dennis Smith.
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After I left the stand,
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Bill Peterson grabbed meout in the hall during a break
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and told me he wantedto see me in his office.
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And Bill told me that what I had said
was completely false,
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and incorrect,
and it didn't happen that way.
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And I told him it wasn't.
That... It's exactly as I remembered it.
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I had nothing to gain from testifying.
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I had nothing to gain.
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He got really angry and he gotabout five inches from my face
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and he was red-faced, and he said,
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"You're not leaving hereuntil you get back on the stand."
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He was very intimidating.
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But at the same time, I'm kind of...
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I'm kind of self-assured
and I know what I know.
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And I wasn't going to let him bully me.
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[Robert]
So now, a second trial has been ordered.
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Bill Peterson was the district attorney
for three counties,
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and they moved it to another county
where he basically reran the trial.
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[Tommy]They turned around,
and when I went back on that retrial,
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they charged me now with the shooting
since they found her being shot.
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The court says,
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"Well, those are just details.
Doesn't matter that this is wrong,
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this is wrong, this is wrong,
this is wrong.
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They said they killed her and she's dead,
so that's enough."
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[Butner] Those of us that see
the way that juries operate.
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I mean, they still don't believe...
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that I could force you,
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or implant you...
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in your mind, something to say
in front of a video camera.
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They think that if it wasn't true,
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you wouldn't say it.
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[Judge] There are instructionsthat the law says that you give a jury.
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And of course the bottom one is, you know,don't check your common sense in the door.
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Sometimes eyewitness testimony's bad,
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sometimes it's not.
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Sometimes the attorneys are bad
and sometimes they're not.
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But I believe in my heart
that my jurors...
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got it right almost�99% of the time.
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But of course,
if you're that 1% guy, you're screwed.
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[chuckles]
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[Claudia]
We heard the tape and I remember I...
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CLAUDIA MORNHINWEG
JUROR, WARD AND FONTENOT TRIAL
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was not going with the majority.
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And I just kind of remember
feeling like...
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I was almost under pressure that
if I didn't go with the majority,
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then these men might be let go
and this could happen again.
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You finally just go along with the group
because you don't know what else to do.
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[Davis] We talk all the time
about the presumption of innocence.
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We act like there's a huge burden
on the prosecution
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to overcome
that presumption of innocence.
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But the fact is,
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jurors tend to think,
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"Why would they have charged himif there wasn't the evidence?
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He's got to be guilty."
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[Tommy] What really distraughted me is,
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you know, the...
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thinking that...
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that people would even think I could be
even capable of doing such a thing.
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You know?�And...
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That's... Things like that,
I was thinking all throughout the trial,
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you know?�And I thought...
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I couldn't believe it, you know?
I kept telling myself,
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"Man, this...�Ain't no way, you know,
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that these jurors
would even find me guilty or anything,
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because I didn't do it.
And they're gonna see that,
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you know, this is a bunch of lies
and a bunch of bull."
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I guess I just wasn't really
living in the reality.
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I was shocked.
I just, you know, start crying and...
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I was praying and asking God.
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I said, "God, man,
please show these people,
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you know, that we didn't do it."
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Well, it's been rough.
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Lot of people come in and say,
"Tommy, how in the world do you do it?"
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You know?
And I tell 'em, I say, "Well, you know...
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My only explanation is knowing
that God knows the truth, you know?
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And he's the one that gives me
the strength to carry me through."
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[panting]
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[Melvin] I know me and Tommy,
even though we was...
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really close growing up.
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I mean, I'm only a little
over a year older than him.
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Before, he's my little brother, you know?
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Somebody you knocked around
a little bit every now and then.
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Now, he's my brother.
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I mean, I talk to him.
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I'm a lot closer to him now
than I ever was.
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[fire crackling]
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[Melvin] Hey, Tommy.
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-How's it going?
-All good. Yourself?
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[Tommy] I'm okay. I mean, it was upliftingto see y'all yesterday.
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Yeah, it was a good visit.
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[Melvin]
I've missed a lot of time with Tommy,
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where we could've been out doing thingslike we used to when we was kids.
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Could've been out fishing.
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I think he's spent 35 years in a place
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that he should never have been in,in the first place.
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Took his life away from him.
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Tommy's come up for parole,I believe in February.
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[Tommy on the phone] I kinda startedgathering �a little bit of a letter
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that I've been writingto the parole board myself.
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I'll read it to them, if they hear.
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"Pardon and Parole Board,
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My name is Thomas Ward.
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I have spent the last 34 years in prison,
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after being convicted in April, 1984.
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Charges are robbery, kidnapping,and a murder charge
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of Donna Denice Haraway."
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[Melvin] If I had any inclinationto ever thought that Tommy had done it...
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I would have disowned him.
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Taking another person's life.
Taking somebody's daughter, mother,
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That's the worst thing you can do.
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There's no doubt in my mind he's innocent.
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[Tommy speaking on the phone]
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"...and I'm praying for a second chancein life to be of service for my community.
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Thank you for your consideration.Respectfully, Thomas Ward."
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How did it sound?
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[Melvin] It sounded good.
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Tommy has told me
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that he does not hold any ill will
against these people,
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for what they've done to him.
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He's a better man than I am.
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Because I do.
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I just... I do.
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-All right, love you bunches.
-Bunches. Bye, bye.
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-[Melvin] All right, Tommy.
-All right, God bless.
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All right. Love you, bye.
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[Christy]
Trying to look into Debbie's case,
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I found this book.
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And so they talk some about Debbie's case,
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but then,he also talks about Denice's case.
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And...
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the snitch in both the cases,
the jailhouse snitch.
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Her name was Terri Holland.
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[Stacy] Apparently there was
a lot of things going on behind the scenes
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through the DA's office
or the police department,
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I don't know who.
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But that are getting people to testify
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inside the jail,
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who gave completely false testimony.
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[Christy] The assistant district attorney,which was Chris Ross.
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It says, "When Barry asked Ross
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about the reliabilityof the jailhouse snitches,
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Ross asked, 'Do you mean Terri?'
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'Well,' Ross said grinning,
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'We like to say she has a C-spot.'"
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And he questions, "A C-spot?"
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"Yeah, you know, C-spot for confessions."
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[huffs]
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[Christy] "She had taken the confessionson the most spectacular murders in Ada
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in recent history.
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The killing of Debbie Carterin December of 1982,
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and the murder of Denice Haraway, in 1984.
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'That her C-spot was working,' said Ross."
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Reading that again just pisses me off
all over again.
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I have chosen to learn more
about the criminal justice system
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and how it plays out in real life,
and how the death penalty fits into that.
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This commission
has been an honor to serve on,
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and has helped add a wealth
of further knowledge,
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specific to our death penalty process
here in Oklahoma.
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While I struggle with what punishmentwould seem adequate
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for the sufferingof Debbie and her family,
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nothing will ever makemy Aunt Peppy whole again.
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But the truth would have beena good place to start.
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When you have a loved one
who is brutally raped and murdered,
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there is no such thing as closure.
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But to avoid the added traumaand suffering
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my family endured, trial after trial,
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along with innocent mengoing to death row�and to prison,
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the state must take a serious look
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at what is wrong with its death penalty,
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and implement real reforms.
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That these issues matter
to real Oklahomans, like my family.
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Thank you.
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[applauding]
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I now have a lot of concerns
about the criminal justice system
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and how it works.
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And one of my biggest concern
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about the criminal justice system
is why there is no desire
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to change the things
that we know are the problems.
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People say we have the greatest system
in the world or whatever,
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I mean, on paper.
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If it works the way
that it says it should on paper
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that would be great.
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But it doesn't play out that way
in real people's lives.
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And you don't know that until you've kindof been through what we've been through.
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Exoneree families, exonerees themselves,
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murder victim surviving family members,
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we're all tied together by a common thread
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of being failed by the justice system.
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We're all...
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intertwined by our desire
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to see change,
so that this doesn't continue to happen.
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-[rain pouring]
[thunder crashes]
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[Christy] I... organize a support group
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here in Oklahoma for exonerees and...
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other people affected
by wrongful conviction.
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And we try to meet, like once a month.
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[thunder rumbling]
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When they release me,
I just go out the door.
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I'm just by myself
with a box of legal work,
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and there's a taxi sitting over there.
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I got my little bit of money
on a debit card and...
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I just got immediate release.
I don't have nothing coming.
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They said, "Where do you want to eat?"
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I said, "Well, I don't know."
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But...
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I didn't know how to order.
[quavers and sniffles]
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I'm looking at a menu
and there's too much there.
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I'm thinking, "My goodness... [sniffles]
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...I've been told what to eat
for 17 years." [sniffles]
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And the fork was just too heavy. [laughs]
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It was odd.
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And so...
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[chuckles] I got in this routine
where I'd sit down to eat with somebody
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and I'd just look
at what everybody is getting,
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and I'd say,
"Well, I'll have one of those."
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[Christy]
The system gets it wrong and it's...
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I mean, for the most part,
you don't even get an,
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"I'm sorry that we took the last...
however many years of your life."
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It's just, "Get the hell out."
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You get to thinking about it,
it eats at you.
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So I immerse myself in work
and don't worry about it too much.
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I've been blessed in lots of ways.
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I'm just thankful
I didn't have to do that whole 35.
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The fact that your life can be taken away
and you can be thrown into prison...
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that easy,
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is horrifying to me.
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You're at their mercy.
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You know?
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I mean, that's not the way
that it's supposed to be.
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[thunder crashes]
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[man] Tell him that he is here
for consideration for parole
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on a Beckham County case
of trafficking illegal drugs.
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Mr. Porter,
if you will give us your full name
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and DOC number please?
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[Melvin] When Tommy went up for parole...
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I'd called him a couple days before
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and the lady on the phone had told methat it was just brief.
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There was...
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no reason for his delegates to be there.
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It was a couple days later he was denied.
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This is his third time he's been denied...
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his parole.
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Never got to go
in front of the parole board.
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00:24:34,723 --> 00:24:38,018
If you're not willing
to admit that you've...
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00:24:38,852 --> 00:24:41,814
sorry for the crime
that you've been convicted on,
403
00:24:42,064 --> 00:24:45,192
then they're saying
you're not showing any remorse.
404
00:24:45,526 --> 00:24:47,695
So, you're not going to get paroled.
405
00:24:47,778 --> 00:24:49,697
And he's not going to...
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ever say that he committed this crime.
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00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,579
He was manipulated into saying this
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by people that was supposed
to protect him, also.
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00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:05,170
And they manipulated him into confessing.
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00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,436
I'm gonna reread those rightsto you, okay?
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Okay.
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"I do not want an attorneyand I understand that I can refuse
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to answer questions.
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00:25:25,149 --> 00:25:28,569
No promise has been made to me, nor haveany threats been made against me."
415
00:25:28,736 --> 00:25:30,154
-Is that correct?-That's correct.
416
00:25:30,237 --> 00:25:32,698
Nobody's coerced youor threatened you in any way?
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00:25:32,781 --> 00:25:34,575
You're doing this strictlybecause you want to tell the truth.
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00:25:34,658 --> 00:25:35,951
-Is that correct?-That's correct.
419
00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:37,161
Okay. All right.
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00:25:37,244 --> 00:25:39,204
What I think the investigator's doing here
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is trying to sanitize
what previously happened.
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00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:44,835
So, he says, "Now, we gave you
an opportunity to go to the restroom,"
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00:25:44,918 --> 00:25:47,004
and, "We gave you an opportunity to eat."
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00:25:47,921 --> 00:25:50,340
And this is for the court.
This is a show for the court.
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00:25:50,424 --> 00:25:52,259
So they're putting words in his mouth.
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They're trying to create
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a sanitized version for the courtto get this admitted
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into evidence,so they can convict him,
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which is their sole goal.
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00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:02,728
You know, this is eight, nine hours in,
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and the truth has
a particular coded meaning here.
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Just go ahead and begin.
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00:26:18,327 --> 00:26:21,371
Feel free to drink your Cokeor have a cigarette as you talk,
434
00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:23,373
-whatever makes you feel more comfortable.-Okay.
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00:26:26,627 --> 00:26:28,462
Should I start with the date?
436
00:26:29,338 --> 00:26:30,255
That's fine.
437
00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:32,674
[interrogator] So, notice thatthe interrogator's acting
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like there's a story hereand he's just gonna tell the story.
439
00:26:35,177 --> 00:26:38,597
So, this is really
a post interrogation interview.
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They rehearse this, they practice it.The police had the capacity to record.
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They didn't.
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00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:47,731
When I was doing my doctoral dissertation,
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one issue that I wanted to confront,
at that time,
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was the problem of false confessions.
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00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:55,823
And of course,Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot alleged
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that they had falsely confessed.
447
00:26:57,825 --> 00:27:01,036
And so it was a case that intrigued me.It was a case that disturbed me.
448
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,872
It was a case that was not unique
in a lot of ways.
449
00:27:04,998 --> 00:27:07,459
I was at a keg party.
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00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:09,837
And I ran into a couple of guys
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00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,965
One of them's name is Titsdale, and...
452
00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:16,301
Now, notice he gets
that detail wrong, right?
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00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:20,305
He can't get Titsworth's name right
and he makes that mistake again.
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00:27:20,389 --> 00:27:21,515
They're about to correct him.
455
00:27:22,266 --> 00:27:24,268
Tommy, excuse me,before you get into your story,
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00:27:24,351 --> 00:27:26,228
now, you said, "Titsdale," now...
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00:27:27,563 --> 00:27:29,648
-Titsworth.-Okay, what's his first name?
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00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:35,154
-It was Odell?-Odell.
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00:27:35,237 --> 00:27:38,532
It's significant because innocent people
don't know the details.
460
00:27:39,116 --> 00:27:40,701
They get details wrong.
461
00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:43,036
It's hard to imagine somebody
not knowing the name
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00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,037
of their accomplice
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00:27:44,121 --> 00:27:47,166
in the version of the crime
that he ends up confessing to.
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00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:51,086
As we was going to McAnally's,we stopped there at the apartments...
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00:27:51,962 --> 00:27:53,797
and decided to smoke some pot
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00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:56,300
and get high and everything.We drank some.
467
00:27:58,093 --> 00:28:00,929
Then when we got--We planned it out before we got there.
468
00:28:01,722 --> 00:28:02,973
Then when we got there...
469
00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:04,850
Odell...
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set it up for us and everything.
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00:28:08,061 --> 00:28:10,939
So this is just a different memory test,
essentially.
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00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:14,526
All right, he's giving back
what they told him to confess to,
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with the benefit
that they already got an account
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00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:20,449
out of Tommy
that they're pressuring him to match.
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00:28:31,293 --> 00:28:34,963
[Leo] People with low IQs,low-level cognitive functioning,
476
00:28:35,047 --> 00:28:38,091
high levels of immaturity,tend to break much more easily
477
00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:41,136
when put intoa high-pressure interrogation room,
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in a short period of time.
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00:28:46,475 --> 00:28:51,271
Police are taught techniquesto break down the suspects' denials.
480
00:28:52,439 --> 00:28:55,609
Most people don't knowthat police can lie to you.
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00:28:55,692 --> 00:28:58,278
They can completely fabricate
the evidence.
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00:28:58,862 --> 00:29:00,614
Can you tell mewhat her blouse looked like?
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That she was wearing?
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00:29:02,199 --> 00:29:03,075
I was...
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00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:05,953
It was...
486
00:29:06,620 --> 00:29:07,996
white with little blue...
487
00:29:09,790 --> 00:29:10,874
roses on it.
488
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:12,542
White with blue roses.
489
00:29:12,626 --> 00:29:14,795
-Button-up or slip-over?-It was button-up.
490
00:29:15,045 --> 00:29:17,047
Did it have buttons on the collars?
491
00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:18,632
Or was it just a regular collar?
492
00:29:18,715 --> 00:29:21,760
It had buttons on the collarsand then it had little fringe deals
493
00:29:21,843 --> 00:29:24,680
around her collarand around the end of her arm.
494
00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:26,431
What kind of shirt did she have on?
495
00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:28,475
Was it a pull-over typeor a button-up type?
496
00:29:28,558 --> 00:29:29,393
Button-up.
497
00:29:29,685 --> 00:29:34,231
Did it have anything that you noticedabout it as far as any designs or...
498
00:29:34,314 --> 00:29:37,359
Just the ruffles around the buttonsand the sleeves.
499
00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:39,778
The sleeves had elastic, like, in 'em.
500
00:29:39,861 --> 00:29:42,906
-Was it a short-sleeve shirt?-Yes. It was short-sleeve.
501
00:29:44,032 --> 00:29:46,159
Did it have any lace around the collar?
502
00:29:46,326 --> 00:29:49,121
Yes, it had ruffles around the collar,like the front.
503
00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:54,334
The shirt that Denice Haraway was wearing
was described by both men...
504
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:56,503
in their scenario.
505
00:29:56,586 --> 00:29:58,755
The police did not know what she had on.
506
00:29:59,172 --> 00:30:01,883
They knew she had on
a zip-up grey sweater.
507
00:30:01,967 --> 00:30:04,428
They described that blouse
508
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:07,097
as a lavender blouse
with little blue flowers
509
00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:09,766
and ruffles around the sleeve
and collar, etc.
510
00:30:11,226 --> 00:30:14,563
That proves nothing
because she was found many months later,
511
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:17,691
decomposed,
wearing the one with red stripes.
512
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:20,027
So, the fact
that he's providing this detail--
513
00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:21,862
First of all,
we don't know if it's accurate
514
00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:24,489
and even if it were accurate,
it could be the product again
515
00:30:24,573 --> 00:30:26,366
of police contamination.
516
00:30:29,119 --> 00:30:31,663
It may have appeared persuasive
to the prosecutor
517
00:30:31,747 --> 00:30:35,083
and to a jury
who already believed in his guilt.
518
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:39,338
It's... From the perspective
of a psychological scientist
519
00:30:39,421 --> 00:30:43,342
who studies this,
it's a completely worthless
520
00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:46,386
piece of information
in terms of whether it's probative
521
00:30:46,470 --> 00:30:47,554
of innocence or guilt.
522
00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:52,434
I believe with every bone in my body
523
00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:56,396
that these are completely coerced
false confessions.
524
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,941
And it's shocking to me
that after 30 plus years,
525
00:31:00,025 --> 00:31:02,027
we're still talking about this case.
526
00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:04,571
They should have been released
a long time ago.
527
00:31:14,331 --> 00:31:17,292
I just hope and pray that...
528
00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:19,711
he would be...
529
00:31:21,463 --> 00:31:24,674
like he was when I last seen him.
530
00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:27,677
[Bud] She still worries about him.
531
00:31:27,761 --> 00:31:29,221
-Yeah.
-Tommy was all about Mama.
532
00:31:29,304 --> 00:31:30,430
-Yeah.
-She'll keep
533
00:31:30,514 --> 00:31:33,058
that going till the day she dies.
534
00:31:33,433 --> 00:31:35,727
That he's innocent and he never did it.
535
00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:40,315
[Tommy] That's the only thing I want to dois to go take care of Mom.
536
00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:42,734
You know, be with her.You know, just...
537
00:31:43,402 --> 00:31:47,114
That's it, you know, she's 97 years old.
Don't know how much longer, you know,
538
00:31:47,197 --> 00:31:49,074
she'll be around, you know?
And...
539
00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:50,909
I pray to God that...
540
00:31:51,201 --> 00:31:53,495
you know, her wishes will come true,
you know?
541
00:31:53,578 --> 00:31:56,998
And that's, you know,
seeing the day that I do--
542
00:31:57,082 --> 00:31:59,543
Live to see that I do get out of here.
543
00:32:04,756 --> 00:32:06,758
[thunder crashes]
544
00:32:06,967 --> 00:32:08,969
[paino music playing]
545
00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:23,108
[Barret]
Oklahoma practically leads the world,
546
00:32:23,191 --> 00:32:25,735
I think maybe we're actually number two
547
00:32:25,819 --> 00:32:29,156
in the United States,
which makes us number two in the world
548
00:32:29,239 --> 00:32:30,949
in incarceration rates.
549
00:32:31,575 --> 00:32:32,659
And...
550
00:32:33,034 --> 00:32:39,249
it doesn't improve society
to be that mean-spirited all the time.
551
00:32:39,666 --> 00:32:44,379
But because that's the philosophy
that's taken hold
552
00:32:44,463 --> 00:32:46,798
it tends to perpetuate itself.
553
00:32:48,133 --> 00:32:52,512
It's amazing to me
that people can go to church every day
554
00:32:52,596 --> 00:32:58,560
and hear only a limited portion
of the Bible that fits with...
555
00:32:59,811 --> 00:33:02,856
with whatever
that preacher wants to promote.
556
00:33:03,732 --> 00:33:08,195
That's part of the culture of prosecutorsin Oklahoma and...
557
00:33:08,278 --> 00:33:09,863
it really...
558
00:33:10,906 --> 00:33:12,699
affects how I view people.
559
00:33:13,617 --> 00:33:15,535
It makes me much less secure
560
00:33:15,619 --> 00:33:19,247
in believing in the humanity
of my fellow human beings.
561
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:22,292
[Tommy] Hey, Mark, how are you doing?
562
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:25,212
Hey, Tommy, I can only talk
for just a second and then,
563
00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:28,215
we're about to have
a conference call on your case at four.
564
00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:30,842
So, we'll be making some more plans
565
00:33:30,926 --> 00:33:33,762
on what we're going to file
in the middle of June.
566
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,852
If prosecutors lookedat this case fairly, they...
567
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,689
they ought to know
that there are enough questions
568
00:33:44,773 --> 00:33:47,484
that relief ought to be granted.
569
00:33:48,318 --> 00:33:52,364
Give me a call again in a week
or so and I'll keep you updated.
570
00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:56,535
[Tommy] It's been good to hear your voice,and take care and thank you.
571
00:33:56,618 --> 00:33:58,870
Oh, same to you, Tommy. Take care.
572
00:33:59,955 --> 00:34:00,830
Bye.
573
00:34:30,569 --> 00:34:32,028
[knocking on door]
574
00:34:32,529 --> 00:34:34,406
[Shilton]
Hey, does Vicky Jenkins live here?
575
00:34:34,823 --> 00:34:35,657
Yeah.
576
00:34:36,658 --> 00:34:38,076
-Hi, are you Vicky?
-Yes.
577
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,786
Hey, my name is A.C. Shilton.
578
00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:40,787
I'm a reporter.
579
00:34:40,870 --> 00:34:42,414
I'm working on a story...
580
00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:44,624
about the Denice Haraway case.
581
00:34:44,708 --> 00:34:45,584
And...
582
00:34:45,709 --> 00:34:48,044
I've read through all of the affidavit
that you're name in.
583
00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:50,672
I was just wondering if you'd be willing
to talk to me a little bit
584
00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:53,967
about what happened
and what you know from back then?
585
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:56,428
-[Vicky] It's been a long time ago.
-I know.
586
00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:58,346
[Vicky] And I don't remember a whole lot.
587
00:34:58,680 --> 00:34:59,598
Okay.
588
00:35:11,026 --> 00:35:14,404
My name is A.C. Shilton.I'm a freelance journalist.
589
00:35:16,573 --> 00:35:18,325
I've been a journalist for seven years.
590
00:35:18,408 --> 00:35:19,659
I really love to write.
591
00:35:20,201 --> 00:35:23,371
I really love listening to other people
and I like to hear their stories.
592
00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,834
I would like to write, you know,
a series of storiesthat kind of works
593
00:35:27,917 --> 00:35:31,838
on how we make our system more fair.
594
00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:36,092
We need more checks and balances.I think that's what really concerns me.
595
00:35:36,176 --> 00:35:40,597
It seems like we have concentrateda lot of power, you know,
596
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:41,848
with just a few folks.
597
00:35:43,391 --> 00:35:45,852
I got Dreams of Ada,
which is a book by Robert Mayer
598
00:35:45,935 --> 00:35:48,772
that focuses specifically
on Tommy and Karl's case,
599
00:35:48,855 --> 00:35:51,733
and it was written
right after they were originally tried.
600
00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:54,694
So I read that and got more background.
601
00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:05,789
If you were Tommyor if you were Tommy's family,
602
00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:10,126
you would just keep thinking, like,"This is gonna end,"�you know,
603
00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:12,837
"They don't have anything on me.They don't have any evidence."
604
00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:19,511
[knocking on door]
605
00:36:24,349 --> 00:36:28,061
When you get onto that, like,
something's amiss here,
606
00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:29,729
something's not quite right,
607
00:36:29,813 --> 00:36:31,898
I end up becoming like a dog with a bone.
608
00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:33,441
I can't let it go.
609
00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:36,194
Like, I need to figure out
what's not right about this.
610
00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:38,780
Eighty-seven...
Okay, these are his co-defendants,
611
00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:39,989
so we're close.
612
00:36:40,573 --> 00:36:43,159
Eighty-four, '86...
613
00:36:43,243 --> 00:36:46,621
I think that would be my first step
is get all the documents you can find,
614
00:36:46,705 --> 00:36:50,041
and then, you know,
it's just all about building relationships
615
00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:52,335
and, you know, beating the streets
and meeting people
616
00:36:52,419 --> 00:36:54,212
and trying to find the people
who are going to be able
617
00:36:54,295 --> 00:36:56,464
to put the story together for you.
618
00:36:56,548 --> 00:36:59,384
Hey, Dane, my name is A.C. Shilton.
I'm a journalist...
619
00:36:59,467 --> 00:37:03,221
I am working on a story
about the justice system,
620
00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:05,056
and some things that are happening in Ada.
621
00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:07,600
And a couple of folks suggestedyou might be a good person
622
00:37:07,684 --> 00:37:08,893
to get in touch with.
623
00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:12,355
Is that something you might be willingto talk to me a little bit about?
624
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,901
Tommy and Karl are mostly,
I think, in jail
625
00:37:16,985 --> 00:37:19,988
because they just didn't have
the resources to fight the system.
626
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:25,702
If we could get them out,
627
00:37:25,994 --> 00:37:30,081
I would feel, like,
this is why I do this.
628
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:32,834
Hi.
629
00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,836
All right, nobody's home here.
630
00:37:35,295 --> 00:37:37,297
[sighs]
631
00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:41,217
[cell-phone ringing]
632
00:37:44,012 --> 00:37:44,888
Hi, Cheryl.
633
00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:46,931
Hello there, hello.
634
00:37:47,015 --> 00:37:50,310
I found a couple recordings.
635
00:37:50,393 --> 00:37:51,519
Wow.
636
00:37:51,603 --> 00:37:54,564
I have located 16 boxes of stuff.
637
00:37:54,647 --> 00:37:57,317
-Holy cow.
-And if you can give me a little time
638
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,818
-to go through there...
-Okay.
639
00:37:58,902 --> 00:38:01,529
I can find all kinds of stuff for you.
640
00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:04,157
I mean, I know there's someamazing stuff in there.
641
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:07,327
Wow.
That's the best thing I've ever heard.
642
00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,287
[chuckles] That's super great.
643
00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:14,459
[Cheryl] There's a lot of story to tellhere and it's Deliverance Country.
644
00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:17,295
And the--A small group of people have controlled
645
00:38:17,378 --> 00:38:19,798
-the power structure there forever.
-Yeah.
646
00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:23,968
If law enforcement can't arrest the people
647
00:38:24,052 --> 00:38:27,305
or person who really did itbecause they're connected,
648
00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:29,599
they just go get replacements.
649
00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:32,101
[Shilton] Right. There's no waythat these two men did it,
650
00:38:32,185 --> 00:38:33,728
but I think they needed somebody,
651
00:38:33,812 --> 00:38:35,980
and Ward happenedto look like that composite sketch.
652
00:38:36,064 --> 00:38:38,107
You know,I just think it's mistaken identity
653
00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,235
and needing�to put two bodies in jail.
654
00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:43,988
[Cheryl]
I am hoping that telling this story
655
00:38:44,072 --> 00:38:46,866
in a very full
656
00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:51,037
and candid way may helpthe two people still trapped there.
657
00:38:53,122 --> 00:38:56,668
And so I really do very much wantto help you
658
00:38:56,751 --> 00:38:58,044
-as fully as I can.
-Thank you.
659
00:38:58,127 --> 00:38:59,254
Well, I appreciate it.
660
00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:01,840
I wish more folks were like you.
We're running into a lot of folks
661
00:39:01,923 --> 00:39:03,424
who don't want to help us, you know?
662
00:39:03,508 --> 00:39:05,927
People on the ground in Ada
who are just scared.
663
00:39:06,553 --> 00:39:09,764
[Cheryl] What I would suggestis letting me get Dan Clark,
664
00:39:09,848 --> 00:39:12,684
my investigator on that case,
665
00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:13,852
-into the office.
-Yeah.
666
00:39:13,935 --> 00:39:15,979
There were all kindsof crazy things that happened.
667
00:39:16,062 --> 00:39:18,690
Like, we felt threatened enoughthat Dan rented a different car
668
00:39:18,773 --> 00:39:20,149
every time he went down there.
669
00:39:20,233 --> 00:39:21,901
-Yeah, I've heard this.
-And the thing
670
00:39:21,985 --> 00:39:25,697
that will make me feel better isif I can do something to help you.
671
00:39:25,780 --> 00:39:27,866
I felt like those guys were abandoned.
672
00:39:27,949 --> 00:39:30,451
[Shilton]
Yes, well they're not abandoned anymore.
673
00:39:30,535 --> 00:39:33,037
We're gonna work on this.
We're gonna hopefully get them out.
674
00:39:33,413 --> 00:39:35,707
I don't know, maybe not,
maybe I'm too optimistic, but--
675
00:39:35,790 --> 00:39:38,710
[Cheryl]
Well, I tend to be a hopeful person,
676
00:39:38,793 --> 00:39:41,045
and so I see a little opening here,
677
00:39:41,129 --> 00:39:43,464
and I will do everything I canto help you,
678
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:44,924
-okay?
-Awesome. Thank you, Cheryl.
679
00:39:45,008 --> 00:39:46,217
I appreciate it. You take care.
680
00:39:46,301 --> 00:39:47,635
-Okay, bye.
-Bye.
681
00:39:57,812 --> 00:40:01,608
My name is Cheryl Pilateand I'm an attorney here in Kansas City.
682
00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:03,943
For a two-year period of time
683
00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:05,570
I was focused almost wholly
684
00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:08,323
on Ron's and Dennis' civil case.
685
00:40:11,826 --> 00:40:16,581
It took that amount of timeand that kind of focus
686
00:40:16,664 --> 00:40:19,542
to get to the bottomof some of the things that had occurred,
687
00:40:19,626 --> 00:40:20,919
and it wasn't just me.
688
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:23,713
There were two other lawyersand there was an investigator
689
00:40:23,796 --> 00:40:25,131
that was on it full-time.
690
00:40:25,214 --> 00:40:26,925
That was Daniel Clark.
691
00:40:27,008 --> 00:40:29,510
My job function is a fact investigator.
692
00:40:29,594 --> 00:40:32,597
And one of the things I did was go
to the local courthouse and start...
693
00:40:33,723 --> 00:40:36,768
...pulling records
on a lot of the players in the case,
694
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:38,853
and seeing
just what their backgrounds were.
695
00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:41,689
[Cheryl] I would have to say, in this case
696
00:40:41,773 --> 00:40:46,527
there was such a deviation from normal
and accepted police practices.
697
00:40:46,611 --> 00:40:48,321
It's really shocking.
698
00:40:49,489 --> 00:40:51,699
Eyewitness misidentification.
699
00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:53,076
There's snitch evidence.
700
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:55,119
Incentivized witnesses.
701
00:40:55,203 --> 00:40:57,580
Hidden, exculpatory evidence.
702
00:40:57,664 --> 00:40:59,415
Bogus or junk science.
703
00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:01,668
Incompetent defense lawyers.
704
00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:06,464
And in this case, we had a numberof those problems operating.
705
00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:09,050
And it was clear to us,
706
00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:10,468
almost from the beginning,
707
00:41:10,551 --> 00:41:12,428
that Glen Gore
had been treated differently
708
00:41:12,512 --> 00:41:13,554
from everybody else.
709
00:41:14,764 --> 00:41:16,307
[Debbie Carter reenactment]
710
00:41:16,391 --> 00:41:17,558
Save me.
711
00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:26,401
-How long have you known Debbie Carter?-We went to school together.
712
00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:29,153
I've known her a long time,practically all my life.
713
00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:31,739
-And are you a friend of hers?-Yes.
714
00:41:37,036 --> 00:41:38,538
[voice of Glen Gore reenactment]
715
00:41:38,621 --> 00:41:40,081
There's no sunshine
716
00:41:40,164 --> 00:41:42,166
When she's gone
717
00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:47,422
Eyewitness News 5 reporter Steve Voelker'sbeen covering this story all day,
718
00:41:47,505 --> 00:41:50,675
live from Ada, and Steve, tell us moreabout the new suspect.
719
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,053
It's always cold when she's away
720
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:57,181
He was sent to jail in 1987for burglary, kidnapping,
721
00:41:57,265 --> 00:41:58,725
and shooting with intent to injure.
722
00:42:14,365 --> 00:42:16,367
[knocking on door]
723
00:42:16,417 --> 00:42:20,967
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