affiliation with the case. we just said, here, take a look at what we got. tell us what barbara jean can tell us about how she died. according to the confession, ogrod hit the little girl over the head with a weight bar. at trial, prosecutors argued those blows were the cause of barbara jean s death. did the science support that? the science did not support it. and she says the original prosecutors should have noted that. we learned that the prosecution actually had evidence from an expert back at the time of trial, that suggested that barbara jean did not die of the injuries to her head, which is what the jury heard. instead, one of the experts said that the likely cause of death was asphyxia. that was just the beginning. her team determined the jury was given false, unreliable, and incomplete evidence. and even worse, prosecutors
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.
police officer, days after meeting ogrod, hall asked his wife to find information about barbara jean horn s 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 inmate, like he got the story from walter, but walter and jay never communicated together. both snitches went to prosecutors claiming they each heard the same story from ogrod,
maybe i haven t seen it yet. the prosecution s case rested entirely on the confession. walter ogrod took the stand in his own defense. he testified that the detectives had run a false confession out of him. he makes the case that the confession was forced out of him. he was coerced. how did it make you feel to hear him describe that story? angry. i sat in that trial. and the only thing i could think of was getting my hands around his throat. the jury got the case. and returned with a verdict. and when it did. john would be the one lead out of the courtroom in handcuffs. a stunning announcement from the jury box, leaves both sides in disbelief. coming up! the foreman stood up and said yes we ve reached a verdict, and literally opened his mouth to start reading it. when one juror stood up and said i don t know how i feel about this. a crazy confrontation in that courtroom.
hall whose nickname was because he had heard more confessions than a priest. john hall was a criminal who had been used as a witness by prosecutors, often hicks receiving leniency in exchange for us testimony. he just had this knack for, where the da did not have enough evidence. and somehow, miraculously every time that happened, john produced a confession from that person and he would give them convictions. tom called hall s house, and his wife answered. and i thought, she is not going to talk to me, right? wrong, not only did she talk, she could not have been more blunt. i said, i m calling about john hall. and she said, yeah he lied in 20 or 30 cases. i said do you think he lied about ogrod and she said yeah. i said how do you know, and she 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 senten