The Innocent Man is yet another compelling-yet-bleak look at the broken American justice system, courtesy of Netflix.
The six-episode series digs deep into a complex timeline comprising two similar murders in Ada, Ok, in the 1980s, with the legal proceedings for both crimes spanning into the 2000s. Although the identity of the true killer of the show's second murder, that of cashier Denice Haraway, remains a bit of a mystery - Ada natives Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot were sentenced to life in prison for her death, but maintain their innocence - the rape and strangulation of Debbie Carter is solved by the end of John Grisham and director Clay Tweel's docuseries.
Warning: Spoilers and graphic language about the events depicted in The Innocent Man ahead.
On Dec. 7, 1982, 21-year-old Debra "Debbie" Sue Carter drove home, where she lived alone, after working a late-night shift as a waitress at the...
The six-episode series digs deep into a complex timeline comprising two similar murders in Ada, Ok, in the 1980s, with the legal proceedings for both crimes spanning into the 2000s. Although the identity of the true killer of the show's second murder, that of cashier Denice Haraway, remains a bit of a mystery - Ada natives Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot were sentenced to life in prison for her death, but maintain their innocence - the rape and strangulation of Debbie Carter is solved by the end of John Grisham and director Clay Tweel's docuseries.
Warning: Spoilers and graphic language about the events depicted in The Innocent Man ahead.
On Dec. 7, 1982, 21-year-old Debra "Debbie" Sue Carter drove home, where she lived alone, after working a late-night shift as a waitress at the...
- 12/23/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
If you've already binge-watched all of The Innocent Man, we have good news for you - you can read the book that inspired the series, too. Netflix's six-part true crime docuseries is actually based on John Grisham's bestselling 2006 book, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, which is centered around two murders that took place just a few years apart in Ada, Ok, in the 1980s, as well as the controversial chain of events that followed. Grisham may be known for his legal thrillers - having practiced criminal law himself for a decade - but The Innocent Man remains his only work of nonfiction, and believe it or not, the subject matter was first brought to his attention by a relatively quiet obituary in the New York Times.
Related: A Comprehensive Timeline of the Murder Cases at the Heart of Netflix's The Innocent Man
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Related: A Comprehensive Timeline of the Murder Cases at the Heart of Netflix's The Innocent Man
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- 12/19/2018
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
The Innocent Man, Netflix’s new binge-worthy true-crime series, is a six-part examination of two seemingly unrelated murder cases that occurred in Ada, Oklahoma, during the 1980s. Without giving too much away, here’s what you need to know about the murders of Debbie Carter and Denice Haraway, and the four men whose claims of innocence were overshadowed by questionable witness testimony, “dream” confessions and other dubious evidence.
There 1982 rape, strangulation and murder of Debbie Carter, 21, and the 1984 disappearance and murder of Denice Haraway, 24, share more than a few common threads.
There 1982 rape, strangulation and murder of Debbie Carter, 21, and the 1984 disappearance and murder of Denice Haraway, 24, share more than a few common threads.
- 12/18/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
Though John Grisham's 2006 book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, was originally inspired by the wrongful conviction of Ronald Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz in the murder of cocktail waitress Debbie Carter, that wasn't the only murder that shook Ada, Ok, in the 1980s. Grisham's book focuses on the police investigation's mishandling of both cases, the second of which occurred just a few years after Carter's murder, when Ada resident Denice Haraway disappeared from her night shift as a cashier at a gas station and convenience store. A clerk at a store down the road, Karen Wise, reported seeing two men enter the store earlier on the night Haraway was abducted, and a newspaper published the composite sketches based on Wise's description, one of which resembled Ada resident Tommy Ward.
24-year-old high school dropout Tommy Ward had been arrested previously for misdemeanors - though...
24-year-old high school dropout Tommy Ward had been arrested previously for misdemeanors - though...
- 12/18/2018
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
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