The Bag at Intake Gate Four: How They Framed William Stroud
The Bag at Intake Gate Four: How They Framed William Stroud
The concrete lip held a leather handbag upright, brass clasp fastened, three-quarters of a mile from the nearest public road in the pre-dawn dark of early September 1989 - with no footprints in the damp grass around it. That bag contained Theresa Mack's ID and keys, a four-inch blood smear on the nearby intake gate typed B-positive while her blood was O-negative, and one man would be charged; how did a single smear become the linchpin of a wrongful conviction?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the discovery of…
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