connecting him to it. many, like heidi gould, told tom that if anybody could be easily manipulated into confessing, it was her friend walter. you could tell that he was a little bit different, like socially awkward. tom decided he had heard enough doubt that he needed to meet ogrod himself. what were your initial impressions of him? it was a little bit like talking to rain man. he could not express feelings to me, but he knew all of the facts. and i thought, he is like the aspergers 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 detective devlin claimed he did in the confession. that supposedly verbatim
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,
failed to disclose evidence favorable to ogrod including a personality profile from their own experts, concluding that we ogrod is a person easily manipulated. frankly, it shocked me and i think it shocked some other people as to some of the evidence that was in that file that was not turned over. when i spoke with cummings in the spring of 2020, she told me that it was time to act. so what are you asking the court to do? we are asking the court to vacate the conviction, because we believe the conviction as it stands is a gros miscarriage of justice. it is an extraordinary admission, rarely heard from a prosecutor. in a case where you say, we got it wrong, and not only did we get it wrong, but we think this person is innocent, that ought to concern, scare anybody. but would it be enough to free walter ogrod?
barbara jean horn s murder, and you could soon be faced with a difficult question. what would sharon and john think if turned out that neither jury had her the real story. doubts surface as lowenstein dives deeper into the case, what is the wrong man behind bars? coming up, that prism snitch who helped secure the verdict, someone was about to snitch on him. i was like, do you think he lied about we walter ogrod. and she said i know we did. i said how do you know he did, said because i helped do it. someone is on death row because of what he got out of it. when dateline continues. help getting free medication. trelegy for copd. birds flyin high, you know how i feel. breeze driftin on by. .you know how i feel. you don t have to take. [coughing]