this? i am like what is going on here? he says he repeated what they wanted him to say, and then signed a confession because he was exhausted and afraid. by the time he was put in a holding cell, he had already recanted, but it was too late. did you realize what had just happened? when i started getting a little more conscious and all, i was like what the hell did i just do? years later, prosecutors claim that ogrod had confessed again to the jailhouse snitch. what was it like to hear in court that you had somehow killed barbara jean to get closer to her mom? i wondered how did they come up with this crap. but it was enough to convince the jury that ogrod was guilty and deserve to die. did you look at the jury? they were stonefaced. they were like yeah, we want to just get rid of you. ogrod was shipped off to death row.
clinton. president biden met with tech leaders to discuss potential dangers of artificial intelligence. representatives from amazon, google and meta and microsoft were among those who agreed to do for the emerging technology. now, back to dateline. k to dateline. welcome back to dateline, i m andrea cannon. after two sensational trials, walter ogrod was sentenced to the murder of barbara jean horn. he denied killing the little girl, insisting that police coerced his confession and that the story told by a jailhouse snitch was a lie. now, an unexpected highlight was about to help walter prove his innocence. back to lester holt with the investigation. walter ogrod had been on death row for five years when he heard from another inmate,
angles. all predictable questions. but, an investigation that was never left and started, more twists we get around the bend. coming up a tale from jail. looks at me, he says, i think i know who did. i said, really tell me. this guy wasn t just your ordinary jailhouse snitch. when dateline continues. ateline continues.
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state was heavy on fiction, light on facts. they had a puzzle, neat little pieces, but the pieces were not exactly right. the state was so desperate to prove this, that it clung to the word of a jailhouse snitch and career criminal. a fellow that is there to cut himself a deal, get some assistance in his own case, it s not likely to be credible. not only was the snitch not to be believed, the defense told the jurors, but the state was also trying to confuse them about the mystery blood found at the crime scene. the bottom line, said pratt, the dna from that blood cleared their client of the murders. the dna did not match. and we knew the dna was not going to match rick. she knew that, she said, because rick had an alibi for the night of the murders with bambi. he had been asleep in myrtle beach with his family. the most challenging part of the case was the blood on rick s shoe. to explain how it got there, rick took the stand.