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Dec 14, 2018 · Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson were wrongly convicted of the murder of Debbie Sue Carter and sentenced to life in prison. Here's what you need to know about where he is now.
- Debbie Carter
In May 1987, 37-year-old Dennis Fritz and 34-year-old Ronald...
- Ron Williamson
Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz were both arrested in 1987...
- Debbie Carter
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In December 1982, twenty-one year old Carter was found sexually assaulted and murdered in her apartment in Pototoc County, Oklahoma. Fritz and Williamson were known to frequent the restaurant where the victim worked and allegedly the victim had complained to a friend that they made her nervous. Williamson had also been seen at the restaurant the ni...
Investigation and Trial Williamson and Fritz were not charged until five years after the murder (the charge was delayed by state exhumation of the victim after an incorrect analysis of fingerprints at the scene was noted). An inmate that Fritz was paired with eventually came forward and stated that Fritz had confessed to the murder. This confession...
Forensic testing was performed on various items of evidence. Seventeen hairs were recovered and were matched to both Fritz and Williamson, though we now know that this type of hair analysis is not a validated forensic science practice. Furthermore, the semen evidence found at the crime scene was subjected to blood testing, and the results suggested...
Williamson and Fritz were released and exonerated in April 1999, after spending 11 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. Williamson had, at one point, come within five days of execution.
Soon after their release, Williamson and Fritz visited New York, where they took a tour of Yankee Stadium. Williamson said he just got a taste of how much fun they were having up here. Williamson and Fritz filed a civil lawsuit against the Pontotoc County district attorney and others, which was settled for an undisclosed amount of money.
Sadly, on December 4, 2004, Williamson died in an Oklahoma nursing home, surrounded by his family. He had recently been diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver. He was 51 years old.
Williamson and Fritzs case is the subject for John Grishams first nonfiction book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, which was published in 2006 and was a bestseller.
Williamson and friend Dennis Fritz were arrested five years later on flimsy testimony. In separate trials, both Fritz and then Williamson were found guilty in 1988. Williamson received a death sentence, while Fritz was sentenced to life without parole. The evidence included expert testimony in hair analysis, which is now regarded as unreliable.
Nov 26, 2018 · Williamson and his friend Fritz, a high-school science teacher and father of one, both drank at the bar where Carter had worked. Following her murder, another customer, named Glen Gore, told...
Dennis Fritz, along with co-defendant Ron Williamson, was convicted in 1988, in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, of the murder of Debra Sue Carter. Her body had been found six years earlier. Fritz was sentenced to life in prison.
Dec 14, 2018 · The body of 21-year-old Debbie Sue Carter was found in her apartment in Ada in December 1982. She had been raped, murdered and left with words written on her body in ketchup. Five years after...
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Dec 14, 2018 · After spending 11 years in prison for the 1982 murder of Debbie Sue Carter, Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson were exonerated and released.
