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,
the killing of four year old barbara jean when detective marty and his partner took over the barber jean horn case in 1992, they decided to go back to square one. they felt that barbara jean must have been killed on the block. very near to where she lived. and they decided to canvas it again. none of the neighbors had any new information. but detectives learned that the man who lived across the street had moved across town the year after the crime. his name was walter ogrod. a single, 27 year old philadelphia native. who worked as an overnight bakery truck driver. they called him up and asked him to come in as a witness. they said we re just talking to people in the neighborhood, and he said all right. and he went in. they told him he was going to go see the philadelphia police about the murder. walter ogrod friend, steve,
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but only one of them testified. prosecutors told him that they had been using hall too much. now, all these years later, tom was convinced that ogrod had been railroaded by both police and prosecutors, which made what he had to do next especially difficult. you took your suspicions to barbara jean horn family. from the beginning, that was always looming for me. if i ve shown up at my door ask my dad, i will slam the door and told him to get lost. but sharon in john agreed to hear him out. john and i met with him, and he told us a lot of the different things that we re not right, he felt. he claims that walter s innocent and that he got a bad deal, and the police did it on purpose, it was accidental, that they coerced him, whatever. i never have wavered on walter s guilt. never. tom had not convinced the
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.