The Wallet in the Hackberry: How Evidence Set an Innocent Man Free
The Wallet in the Hackberry: How Evidence Set an Innocent Man FreeA leather wallet stood upright six feet up in the fork of a hackberry tree, two miles from the nearest crime scene - and the ID inside belonged to a man already jailed for murder. That wallet, found on August 11, 2009, contradicted the case the prosecution built and would take two years to explain; how did a man’s wallet end up in a tree, not in his pocket, after his arrest?In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the discovery in the hackberry to the trial that began February 8, 2010, showing how routine…
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