Cases

Here are cases I am aware of. Anything in bold is something the authorities could fix but have not chosen to. The "police ignoring leads" column refers to leads (usually found by the people in the "evidence" column) which, if investigated, seem likely to find the actual culprit. I will periodically update this post (last 2/17/18).

City and State	Crime	Accused and status	Evidence	Police ignoring leads?
Rome, Georgia	Murder of Isaac Dawkins	Joey Watkins -- imprisoned since 2001 Mark Free -- acquitted by jury	Undisclosed	Yes
Baltimore, Maryland	Murder of Hae Min Lee	Adnan Syed -- imprisoned since 1999; conviction overturned	Undisclosed Truth and Justice	Yes
Oxford, Ohio	Murder of Elizabeth Andes	Robert Young -- acquitted by jury	Accused	Yes
Oklahoma City, OK	Various sex crimes	Daniel Holtzclaw -- imprisoned since 2015	Holtzclaw Trial	N/A
Tyler, Texas	Murder of Elnora Griffin	Edward Ates -- imprisoned since 1998	Truth and Justice	Yes
Tyler, Texas	Robbery of Bill Cole	Kenny Snow -- imprisoned since 2004	Truth and Justice	N/A
Bell County, Texas	Robbery of a 7-11	George Powell III -- imprisoned since 2009	Truth and Justice	N/A
Conway, South Carolina	Home invasion, robbery	Jamar Huggins -- imprisoned since 2012	Undisclosed	Yes
Bloomington, Illinois	Murder of Christina McNeil	Barton McNeil -- imprisoned since 1998	Suspect Convictions	Yes
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Murder of John Lewis	Willie Veasy -- imprisoned since 1992	Undisclosed	Yes

About this blog

The purpose of this blog is to record serious crimes where the wrong person has been accused. In each case, many people involved in the prosecution had to know that the evidence was faulty, but the prosecution proceeded anyway.I will not, in general, record the evidence, as someone else has done that much better than I ever can. Instead, I will link to the work of others. In many cases, the investigators have also found evidence as to who may have actually committed the crime in question. I will organize the cases by state. In each case, if you have authority in the state in question, I'd strongly suggest checking out the linked evidence yourself. I will only add cases where something useful can still be done. A case would meet this criterion if an innocent person remains in prison, or if there is a strong lead as to who might have actually committed the crime, but the lead is not being followed. It is an sad fact that even after it is proven that a conviction is wrongful, and even after the evidence for that is public and well known, authorities frequently don't want to let the innocent person out or to follow leads as to who might actually be guilty.