said because i helped him. she said he had astonishing to seems down to a science. it didn t bother john at all. shortly before ogrod second trial, hallways moved the same cell block. at the time, he was facing a 50 year sentence for assaulting a police officer, days after meeting ogrod, hall asked his wife to find information about barbara jean horn murder. i went to the library in philadelphia and they have all of the newspapers, so i would give him copies. hall then use those articles to learn about the case, so that he could create a confession that sounded plausible. i had the notes that he made of the ogrod case. i have it all right in front of me, how he made it up. i found our library print out of a newspaper article but this barber jean horn case. hall also shared the fabricated story with another snitch. he gave the story to another
this crime. how he has presented himself throughout is that i am innocent, i did not commit this crime. it took them seven years, but by 2011 they had amassed thousands of pages, undermining the prosecutor s case, including affidavits from snitch john hall and his wife phyllis, laying out the scheme against ogrod. how oval were you at that moment? we are hopeful because we believed that there is more than official grounds in that petition for some court to grant relief. but prosecutors vigorously defended their conviction. years passed well ogrod remained on death row. as the convicted killer of a four-year-old girl, he says he was often beaten by both inmates and officers. by now, tom had been hard at work on a book about ogrod case,
asperger s kids that my friends work with. for tom, meeting ogrod in person changed everything. the man sitting across from him seemed incapable of conveying the words and emotions that the detective claimed he did in the confession. that supposedly verbatim admission, just did not match up with the guy that you had been face to face with? yeah, the story that detectives tell about walter s confession is that they never interrupted him, he just point out is hard to him. he started crying saying officers give me a moment, you don t know how hard this is for me, i didn t mean to kill that little girl. for me that was the moment it clicked that they had not only dictated the story to walter, that they dictated a friend of mine that he is not capable of. but remember, prosecutors alleged that ogrod had only confessed to with detectives, but also a present snitch. this niche was so prolific, he had a nickname. this niche was named john