had plied reinboldt and herrington with alcohol to shape their testimony. she looks at us, and she says, you cannot reopen the rhoads case, it s too politically sensitive. i flashback to all the days i went undercover, risking my life, and believing we would always do the right thing, no matter what, then you re told a murder is too politically sensitive, especially a murder where there s two innocent men in prison and there s misconduct by our own. you re ignoring this? callahan refused to comply with carper s orders and continued working on the case. those two guys were innocent. i had to keep going. he soon discovered a number of leads in the case that were never followed. there were any number of suspects. it was like murder on the orient express or something. when i reviewed the case, there were several other suspects that for whatever reasons the original investigators didn t follow those leads. one of the suspects in the case,
why risk all the turmoil, just turn your back to it, as long as you re not the one doing it. in 2008, mike callahan s $700,000 award was officially overturned. knowing that i m free to walk out that door anywhere i want to go, that gave me a lot of peace. i think it s supposed to be 80 today. randy puts a lot of value on our family and on family relationships. and i m glad that he s able to enjoy his life now and that i m a part of it. the reason i m here today are the people that would stand up and risk everything. everything they worked for. because of what s right.
risked my life, always believing you would do the right thing, then you re told and there was misconduct by our own. you re ignoring this? callahan refused to comply with carper s orders and continued working on the case. those two guys were innocent. i had to keep going. he soon discovered a number of leads in the case that were never followed. there were any number of suspects. when i reviewed the case, there was several other suspects that, for whatever reasons, the original investigators didn t follow those leads. one of the suspects in the case, bill stark, he was a banker by day. there was rumors that he was the peeping tom that was seen in the
officers, why risk being fired? why risk all the turmoil? just turn your back to it, as long as you re not the one doing it. in 2008, mike callahan s $700,000 award was officially overturned. knowing that i m free to walk out that door, anywhere i want to go, that gave me a lot of peace. i think it s supposed to be 80 today. randy puts a lot of value on our family, and on family relationships. and i m glad that he s able to enjoy his life now, and that i m a part of it. the reason i m here today because of the people that would stand up and risk everything.
see the prosecutor out in bars every night, loaded. up the next morning, he s prosecuting somebody for the same offense. that s what alerted me to the fact that he would do anything he could, you know, to frame me for the rhoads murder. for callahan, this upped the stakes. my question was, would a state s attorney try to railroad and frame two men that were willing to do to the fbi and maybe have him arrested for his only illegal doings? callahan also learned disturbing information about one of the lead detectives in the case, jim parish, who had secured debbie reinbolt s testimony. there was instances where both herrington and reinbolt will talk about how police induced them with alcohol. never in my life as an illinois state police officer have i ever seen such blatant disregard for policy and procedure. you would be destroying your case. they did, in fact, take darrell to jimmy s cabin south