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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.
- Williamson Was a Native Oklahoman Known For His Failed Baseball Aspirations Prior to the Murder of Debbie Carter. Per Grisham’s book, Williamson was born on February 3, 1953.
- Williamson Was Arrested in 1987 & Charged With Carter’s Rape & Murder; He Maintained His Innocence Throughout Several Decades. Williamson was serving time in jail at the time of Carter’s murder.
- Williamson Was Exonerated in 1999; He Died in 2004 of Cirrhosis of the Liver. After serving 11 years of his life sentence (and coming within five days of an execution, at one point), Williamson and Fritz were both released and exonerated of any wrongdoing in the Carter murder in April, 1999.
- Williamson’s Death Was the Original Inspiration for John Grisham’s Book. In a speech at the University of Virginia School of Law in 2013, Grisham shared that he first became interested in what would become the topic of the only non-fiction book he would ever write after flipping through the New York Times obituary section and coming across Williamson’s obituary.
Dec 14, 2018 · Five years after he was exonerated, on December 4, 2004, Ron Williamson died in an Oklahoma nursing home surrounded by family after being diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. He was 51 years...
- Jo-Anne Rowney
In 1988, Ron Williamson was wrongfully convicted of murder. He was sent to death row and spent 11 years in prison before being exonerated.
The nightmare crime made for a story which has so many twists and turns that it became the subject of a book by John Grisham, and has now been made into a Netflix series, The Innocent Man, airing...
Dec 14, 2018 · The two were married in 1973 and the town still saw Williamson as "its biggest hero," according to Grisham. But it didn't last long. Williamson's mental health was clearly in decline.
Dec 14, 2018 · About two years before Williamson and Fritz received their wrongful convictions, two other men in Ada were given life sentences for the murder of Donna Denice Haraway.
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