People Who Were Incarcerated For Crimes They Didn’t Commit

Faulty Forensic Evidence Led To Ron Williamson’s Conviction

Ron Williamson grew up in Oklahoma and was picked in baseball’s amateur draft in 1971. He retired following a shoulder injury, and he and a man named Dennis Fritz were accused of murdering a woman named Debra Sue Carter in 1988. Carter’s body had been found in 1982. Problems with the exhumation of the body and fingerprint analysis led to the delay in arresting Williamson and Fritz. The pair was known to hang out at the restaurant where Carter worked. Forensic testing led to their convictions. Williamson was sent to death row and spent 11 years in prison. At one point, he was five days away from execution.