The Oak Tree Jury Card That Freed a Wrongfully Convicted Wife
The Oak Tree Jury Card That Freed a Wrongfully Convicted Wife
The discovery of a laminated jury instruction card lodged nine feet up in an oak tree changed everything: it had survived two winters and proved to be jury instruction number seven on premeditation-the single document a foreperson took from the jury room after a guilty verdict. How did a card hidden on a road Alice Hayes walked daily overturn a life sentence and expose a false eyewitness?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the March 2011 disappearance and death to the 2019 discovery on Eckert Farm Road, tracing…
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