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Podcast: Wrongful Conviction Podcasts
Episode: Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward
Description: He thought the police would recognize this was just a dream, not reality.
Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us a story from Ada, Oklahoma where a young woman went missing. Β A few months after her disappearance, a man named Tommy Ward told police that heβd had a bad dream about her murder. Incredibly, the police took that dream and turned it into a false confession... and into a prison sentence that continues to this day, 35 years later.
Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is a production of Lava for Goodβ’ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No...