#234 Jason Flom with Tyrone Noling

Around that same time, one county away in Atwater, Ohio, on April fifth, nine nine, Bernhardt and Cora Harding were shot to death in their home with the twenty five caliber gun. The sheriff's office immediately had several leads, including Tyrone and his friends, but after ballistics testing showed that Tyrone's tent caliber gun was not a match to the murder weapon, and with no other physical evidence or eyewitness accounts,

Tyrone and his friends were dismissed as suspects. Nevertheless, when the investigation failed to nail the other more viable suspects, and investigators turned back to Tyrone and his friends, who are coerced into turning on one another by lies about non existent evidence and the real threat of the death penalty. His friends Joey Dallassandro, Butch Walcott and Gary st. Clair agreed to tout the false narrative in which Tyrone and

Gary Saint Clair murdered the Heartings, testimony they all later recanted. However, without knowledge of the much more likely suspects, and only presented with the coerced false testimonies, the jury sent Tyrone to death row, from where he and the Ohio Inists Project continue to fight to clear his name to this very day. This is wrongful conviction. Welcome back to wrongful conviction. This is a hard one even for me, because this is one of the most twisted, entangled, nonsensical and I'm

gonna say evil, wrongful convictions that I know of. And of course I'm referring to the case of Tyrone Knowling. Tyrone has been on death row in Ohio for over thirty years, where he remains to this day and with us today to talk about the case. Is a man who knows it like the back of his hand. Brian how Brian is an attorney with the Ohio Innocence Project. So, Brian, I'm glad you're here, But Jesus, this is gonna be

a tough one. Thanks and Tyrone, I'm so glad you're here with us today, even though I'm so very sorry because of the reason why you're here and even more so because of where you are. Thank you. So, Tyrone, let's start by going back to before everything that's happened. What was your life like growing up? I grew up in a small town outside of camp Ohio and Start County called Alliance. I grew up it up one parent home with four other siblings, and my childhood was like

any other childhood. Did sports, went to school, and as I got older, I got in a little trouble, but for the most part, life at home was pretty good. Turned eighteen and pretty much found myself on my own, just hanging out with a group of friends that I had grew up with, and a group of friends that you mentioned here. You're talking about Johnny transit Fare, Gary st. Clair and Joseph Alessandra and Push Walcott, and the latter

three all play a part in this wrongful conviction. Now f you all were staying together in the same house, right, Yeah, I didn't really know, butch Wilcock, I grew up with Gary st. Clair and Joey Dallas Sandrow. We lived pretty much in the same neighborhood and knew each other since kindergarten. Gary's stepdad had an accident and the house became vacant, so we all just started congregating there. We were just

hanging out. We were doing dump stuff, you know, bought pizza, Chase girl was stayed up late and Brian, I want to bring you back in here. So, like Tyrone says, he was getting into some trouble, which is what leads to the connection with this crime. Right sure, I mean the reason that Tyrone was on the radar of investigators was that there were two burglaries that happened the next

county over. The Tyrone was ultimately arrested for I'm pretty guilty too, and those robberies were what made him a target in the heart of murder investigation to begin with, Right, Tyrone and the other young men were involved in some burglaries, and in one he did have a gun that they got from another robbery, and the gun went off accidentally and shot directly into the floor. But Tyrone made sure that no one was hurt before running away. I mean, this is not a guy who was out to hurt anyone.

He was definitely doing some very dumb things, but not a violent guy. And he was arrested for those robberies, pled guilty, and ended up serving time in prison. And that leads us up to this crime, which happens faithfully around the same time. I'm talking about April fifth, nineteen ninety, which is when Bernhardt and Cora Harding, both eighty one years old, were shot to death in their own home.

From the look of things, they had been doing some spring cleaning and they were shot while sitting at their dining room table. This is an at Water, Ohio, which is a rural town in Portage County. And if you don't know at Water, Ohio, it's almost a stretch to call it a town. The people who live within a square mile of this you could count on your hands.

So let me set the stage. Saturday, April seven, ninety at six fifteen pm, Chief Detective Dwayne Cayley was notified by dispatcher Cathy Rabino that Jim Rabino had called and reported that there were two people laying on the kitchen, Florida neighbor's house, Jim's mother, who had lived next door to the heart As for thirty years asked him to go check on them when she noticed their garage had been opened with the lawnmower outside for almost three days.

There was no answer when he knocked on the door and their car was in the garage. He looked inside and saw the heart as laying on the kitchen floor. Now caliber shell cases were found on the floor of the heart a home. Papers from the living room desk were scattered around the room. Dresser drawers and jewelry boxes were open and had been rifled through. At this point, Detective Kayley reported that there didn't seem to be any

signs of struggle from the victims. Mr. Hardick's wallet was in his pocket and the money was still inside, so there was no forced entry found in the house, and it seemed as if there had been at least one other person sitting at the kitchen table. You want to take it from here, because this gets weirder and weirder. Sure, so, it's not a usual occurrence in at Water, Ohio to have a double murder, especially eight plus yr old victims, And so the Sheriff's department began investigating one of the

first leads that they had. And this is even as they are processing the scene, they get a call from a roller rink maybe a couple of miles away, and there is a person they're saying that he lost a twenty five caliber pistol there on Friday night. You know, he was looking for it, trying to see if anyone had turned it in. He was worried that some kids were going to find it. And the person is a man named Dennis fan Steamberg who lived in the area.

Police investigate that, but while they're doing that, leads are sort of pouring in. Right, this is a big deal in the county, it's a big deal in the city. One of the tips they get again almost right away, is from high school student named Nathan Chesley, and he says that my foster brother told me that he was the person who had killed the Heartiggs, and so police

are investigating that lead as well. Okay, so right off the bat, they have some pretty strong leads here, right, So what's going on with the first guy, Dennis van Steinberg. They go talk to him. He says, well, yes, I did have a twenty five I don't know where it went. It must have fallen out of my car or something like that around the time of the murders. He said he had found it. So the police check the pistol to the ballistics of the rounds recovered from the scene

and it's not a match. And so at that point the investigation into vann Steinberg sort of fades away. In the meantime, a police have followed up on Nathan Chesley's tip. They go to his house, which is a woman who had fostered a lot of sort of troubled teams in the area. It's less than a mile and a half

from the scene. And you remember, there's not a lot of people who live as close as Nathan Chesley did to the victims in this case, and so the police asked whether there's a foster brother around who they can interview, and they're told there's a foster brother. He's only fourteen years old, and they eliminate this foster brother pretty quickly. In the meantime, they also get a tip from the

neighboring county, Start County. Start County has been investigating a series of break in where a group of teenagers has been going to various houses saying my car broke down and i'd like to use your telephone. When they're let inside the house. They then produce a shotgun and it turns out to be a fake thirty eight caliber revolver, and they take various valuables VCRs, jewelry, things like that, and that turns out to be Tyrone rolling and his

co defendants. So Tyrone is arrested with this code defendants and they find a caliber gun, so now it's very interesting to the Porch County authorities. They test that one for ballistics and it turns out that it does not match the one that was used in the crime. I mean, there's no getting around that. So at this point the Sheriff no Oh is that these guys, Tyrone and his friends are not involved in the murders. So at that point the investigation sort of stalls out for about a year.

The detectives are facing pressure, they come up with another lead. This time they talked to the heart Eggs doctor Dr canone. The week before the bodies were found, Mr Hardigg told Dr Canogne that he had lent ten thousand dollars to an insurance salesman, that the insurance salesman had failed to pay when the loan had come due on April one,

that something fishy was going on. With this loan and with the insurance salesman explanation for why I refused to pay, and as soon as he got off the phone with Dr Canne, he was going to go sort this out with the insurance salesman. The police start to look at insurance salesman that the Heartings had dealt with. Then they find a man named Louis Lehman. Louis Lehman denies having taken out alone, but he was the insurance salesman for the Heartings. And what's more, he had a twenty five

caliber pistol as well. Unlike the other two pistols that the police have compared, they're able to look up the make and model and see that the pistol Lehman had was consistent with the general rifling characteristics of the rounds that were found in the house. They asked Lehman where his pistol was. He said, well, I must have sold it, but I don't remember who bought it. I don't remember when I sold it, and I'm done answering questions from

you all. He refused to take a lot of detector test and basically stopped talking to detectives, and at that point the investigation had basically completely stalled up. So this lead with Lehman. I mean, if this was a movie script, you would say that this is it was too obvious. Right. What I'm trying to wrap my head around here is this sounds like the investigators are just bungling this at every stage and we haven't even gotten to one of the craziest leads, and that is this guy, Dan Wilson.

That's right. Dan Wilson is arrested for were a murder a few counties over in northern Ohio. Dan had gotten drunk, put a young woman that he'd met earlier that night in the trunk of his car, and set the car on fire. This was very big news, and law enforcement across northeast Ohio started looking at Dan for basically every unsolved murder that they had that included the Portish County

Sheriff's Department. When they did that, they discovered something about Dan Wilson that they'd missed earlier, and that is that he was a foster brother of Nathan Chess, the very kid who came to them the day after the murder and said, my foster brother confessed that When the detectives followed up on that they never interviewed Nathan Chesley and

eliminated the wrong foster brother. They never connected the dots to Dan Wilson, they never bothered to interview Nathan Chesley, and so Dan Wilson, who lived within a mile of the house and who police now believe is a serial killer, was own to them almost immediately after the murderer, and they let it slip through their fingers. He went on

to kill another woman. You know, at the very least, they think it must have been embarrassing to the office that they had this tip within days of the murder, and they didn't realize the mistake until Dan Wilson had committed another very high profile murder. Right at the same time that that's happening. Someone gets a call from a woman named Marlene van Steinberg. She is, I believe the aunt of Dennis van Steinberg, again, who was the very first person who they looked at and who they eliminated

after he turned in his weapon. Well, Marlene says that in those first days of the investigation, Dennis's father had come over to their house and asked his brother, who was Marline's husband, if he could borrow his twenty five caliber pistol for a few weeks, and when Richard van Steinberg asked, why do you need my twenty five, the response was, well, Dennis had to get rid of his because he was in some sort of trouble with the police, and he needed a different one to give the police,

and so they ultimately gave it to him, and that was the weapon that was turned into the police and eliminated. What's more, Marline says that she called the police to tell them this during that original investigation, So the police should have been on notice that Dennis van Steinberg is turning in the wrong gun for comparison purposes, and they still eliminated van Steinberg as a suspect. So those two

things are happening right back to back. Dan Wilson comes to light and it comes to light that they've basically wasted a blistic comparison on what they should have known was the wrong gun Dennis fan Steamer. So we have these incredibly powerful leads that should have led them not towards but away from those four boys, because there's no

connection between these nefarious characters and the four kids. What happens next, so that is when the Porridge County prosecuting Attorney's office takes over the investigation and they assigned their own investigator to the case, a man named Ron Craig. Yes, Ron Craig, let's not skip over this character. From my understanding, he was known for his extremely aggressive interrogation techniques, for playing fast and loose with the rules in order to

get results that he wanted. That's right. Ron Craig was a person who the prosecuting Attorney's office turned to who could crack this case open through aggressive interrogation get results. That is what he was known for at that time. If you look at where the investigation was when they took it over, Dan Wilson at that time was under indictment for murder. You could not interview him without an attorney. Louis Lehman at that point was not cooperating. He had

gotten an attorney as well. Maybe the most logical place for Ron Craig to go was back to these other four kids who had also been eliminated through ballistics and try to see what he could do in terms of interrogating them. And so he started with Butch Wolcott, who

was sixteen years old at the time. Yeah, and this part it gets more and more disturbing because they took these four young kids, and with the very real threat of the death penalty, they were able to scare these kids and brow beat them into saying things that they knew weren't true because they weren't there and they didn't

know anything. And basically, as in other false confession cases or false eye witness cases that we've seen over and over again, they were fed the information by the police and then they were given basically a Sophie's choice, either you lie and implicate your friends, or we are going to send you to death row. Right say no, And I mean for Butch. If you read the series of interrogations and statements that he makes, at least my impression is that he was terrified, and it's clear as he's

just trying to do his best. He continues to insist he wasn't there, He had nothing to do with this. He tells them everything they want to know about the two robberies that happened in Start County, but he says, we never went to Portage County, we never went out at water. He doesn't know where it is, and that's not an answer that Ron Craig is willing to accept.

So what they do is they send him to a child psychologist who then puts Butcher, the sixteen year old kid, under hypnosis in order to recover what they allege our repressed memories of the murder. And so under hypnosis, they would ask things like when did the murderer take place? And Butch would say it was not quite dark, but it was not quite light. I don't know, maybe somewhere

in between. I just don't remember. And he would give answers like that to every question, and even the psychologists at the time that if we keep this up, he's just going to say false things to try and make the investigators happy because he's so terrified. But it didn't stop it, right, And I want to also mention that this detective, Ron Craig made sure to separate Butch from his father. This detective pressured young Butch Walcott relentlessly lying

directly to the kid. That's right, that he had hard evidence implicating him, including a witness m DNA matches, right, So you know, you can imagine what's going on in this poor kid's brain where it's just getting completely scrambled. He's just given these answers that don't make any sense. And let us not forget that the tape recorder was only turned on when Walcott finally made statements that had been fed to him that were consistent with what they

wanted to hear. Right, that was when he implicated the subject of our show today, Tyrone Noling. And then Craig turned to one of the other kids, the Alessandro, who said he knew nothing about the murders, but his own attorney convinced him and his family that he should plead bargain to avoid the electric chair. That's right, Yeah, I mean, once they can get Butch Wolcott to come up with the story, the rest sort of fall in line at

that point. They don't need to go any further. Of Tyrone's the main target, and he's indicted for aggravated murder with capital specifications. Okay, in addition to the other guys, st Clair pled guilty to the Heartick murders as well. Right, he had given into pressure from Detective Craig as well as his own attorneys and his family, and he was understandably scared out of his mind about the death penalty. And then Tyronne Knowling is indicted, initially for the murders.

But this is when things get even weirder. In June, the court entered a noel process, which means that the prosecutor or plaintiff states that they will no longer pursue the matter. So they dismissed the case. The whole thing should have wrapped up right there. That should have been it. Well, that's right, And the reason that the case was initially dismissed was that almost as soon as they had made the deals, both Joey Delessandro and Gary st Clair started

taking them back. You know, it's one thing under a lot of pressure, under threats, with deals being offered, to sort of agree to it in the abstract, under that very immediate pressure. But as the court date actually approached, the Alessandro recanted, asserted their innocence, We had nothing to do with this, and Gary st Clair recanted in a prison interview, said we lied, we were pressured, we had nothing to do with this, and at that point I think the state had no choice but to gree to

dismissed the case and Tyrone. This all has to be so crazy because you have your friends and these guys you've known most of your life saying things about this crime that you know you weren't a part of, but you're indicted for it. And then they dropped the charges. You know, when they dropped charges against me, I didn't see it coming. They offered a deal. I took a lot of detect or tests, and it was placed on

the prosecutor's desk on that Friday. By Monday, they were rushing me in the back of a courtroom with a judge saying, you know, you need to cop out. I don't want to sentence you to death. And I'm pleading with them back there and I'm telling him I didn't do this, and so they sent me back and I'm talking to my dad on the phone and I'm crying and I'm saying I don't know what to do. And my dad says, did you do this? And I said no, and he just said, well, then you stick to your guns.

And that's what I didn't, even though I knew the osby against me. So the next day I go back into the court room and I stand up and the judge says, the prosecutor wants to say something, and uh, he just misses every charge against me. And I can't even explain the feeling at that point, I was happy. I wanted to cry, I wanted to yell. I just

wanted to get out of there. I can't even imagine to have them trying to get you to take an ill while they know their cases falling apart, but they're still trying to force you into it with the very real threat of death, of the death penalty, and then to just drop it. It's like you get dizzy from this, right, So what happened next? For three years almost I didn't hear nothing, and then all of a sudden, the new prosecutor comes in, and now they got Joey back on board.

Once he realizes all the time he's about to do on other charges and decides that he's just going to make up some stuff and remembers everything they want him to say, and I'm being charged again. The nightmare happens once again, Brian, what Tyrone is talking about here with the election of the new prosecutor in Portage County and

Joey Della Sandro coming back on what's going on there? Well, Joey at that point had been serving time on unrelated charge and was sort of unhappy with his circumstances and his sentence. He reached back out and explored the option of what would happen if he did go back on his recantation and agree to cooperate, which he ultimately agreed to do. That is what caused the state to reindite Tyrone. Knowing and now with both Butch and Joey Delessandro, they

were ready to reprosecute the case. So Tyrone's trial begins in January, six years after the crime. Right, so, Walcott, Alessandro, and st Clair will call this prosecution witnesses. But the former two boys gave testimonies that were very inconsistent on significant details, but they nevertheless supported the state's narrative. They said that after the second robbery and their alliance Ohio neighborhood, all four boys allegedly drove to Atwater, where Tyrone allegedly

chose the house to rob. Once they were at the Harding house, the Alessandro or Walcott said they waited in the car while Noling and st Clair allegedly went to the front door. Sometime later, according to Walcott and d Alessandro, Nolan and st Clair came running from the Heartache House and I got back into the card. Alessandro testified that he allegedly smelled smoke coming from Nolan's gun, and that Walcott said he saw the gun smoking. They also said

that Nolan confessed to them. So, Tyrone, you're a trial and you see your friends they're telling these crazy lies. Can you take us back to that moment? It was unbelievable. I've known these guys for all my life and for them just disregard my life and just sit up and they couldn't even look me in the face. They just kept their eyes on the prosecutor. And I wanted to get up in the screen. I wanted to ask, why are you doing this? And so Dallasandra and Walcott are

saying these things. But st Clair decides not to lie for the state anymore. He recanted his statement before trial and again courageously did again on the stand. He denied going to Atwater and committing the murders. And then he was declared a hostile witness. And get this, the state read the entirety of his prior statement to the jury, which when I was reading about this case, I was like, how how can that even for me? That seems beyond the pale. So Brian, what did the defense attorneys say

I mean the other what about the other suspect? Well, all of these plausible and I think likely alternate suspects who the police had originally investigated and who the police hadn't really excluded. None of those names came up during Tyrone's original trial, and it's plausible to believe that it's because that information wasn't turned over to the defense at the time of trial. There was only one theory ever presented to the jury about who committed the crime, and

there were problems with that theory. There were holes in that theory. You remember, the caliber gun that Tyrone and his friends had taken in the prior robbery was still excluded. It was not the murder weapon, and so they just had to come up with another story about how they must have had a second gun, then they must have picked it up somewhere, and then they got rid of it somewhere. And there were things about this that didn't

make sense. But I think the community was still really hurt and outraged by this murder, and they were only really given one theory as to what happened, and despite the problems in that theory, he was convicted. So Tyrone when the jury went out to deliberate. Did you have any hope at all that things were going to go with your favor? I always stay optimistic, even though I knew the cars were stacked against me. And I kind of remember when they came and got me from the

county jail. They was taking me up the steps and they were lined up with deputy sheriff's all the way up, and that it never happened before. So my heart just think at that point, and I remember being in the courtroom and that the jury coming and one of the young ladies that was a Jersey, she sat down and she looked at me. She started crying, and huh, I knew it was over there. I was scared to death. I'm about to go someplace that they say is the

worst of the worst. You're sentenced to death, You're sentence to god people that have committed paine as crimes. I mean, I'm still a young man. I don't know what to expect, and I have no choice because they're gonna take me regardless. So you have a good team of attorneys smiling post conviction motions, but they were all denied. And it's important to mention here that all of the prosecution's witnesses, all of them, Walcott, Alessandro, and st Clair. Every single one

of them has since recanted their testimonies. Right then, in two thousand six, the Ohio Innocence Project took on your case. Can you tell us how that came about? Well, my investigator, Vicki buck Walter, was hired on and she stayed with me after my conviction because she could not believe what happened. She helped me contact people, write letters, and we contacted

the Innocence Project. It was kind of weird because Mark Gotzy showed up with a couple of students, and I thought I was just going there for an attorney visit, and I told me I thought he had in the wrong room, and then he proceeded to tell me who he was, and I just sat down and I felt a weight off my shoulders defined, and we found me

somebody's gonna help me. I had a lot of respect from gratitude for them and and those ensuing fifteen years bringing us right up to the present day, they found a ton of stuff that made it seem like the doors of the prison should have sprung open by now and you should have walked free right out into the sunshine. But of course we know that that not how the justice system works in Ohio or unfortunately in the rest

of our country. So probably can you tell us what the Ohio in this project has been doing to bite this case and where things are at today. Originally, the Higo Inniscence Project was representing Tyrone just for the purposes of trying to get DNA testing, specifically on a cigarette butt that was found at the scene. The Heartings were very sort of meticulous people. They were not the kind of people to leave a cigarette butt in the middle of their driveway, and so there was an idea that

this might have been left by the killer. It was eventually tested, and of course Tyrone all of his co defendants were excluded. But there are a few things that we know we're last touched by the person who committed the crime, and that is the ten shell casings that were found at the scene, and the ring boxes and other items that the perpetrator had rifled through after the

crime or during the crime. DNA technology today is sensitive enough to develop profile from even just a few human cells, and so the hope was that if we were able to conduct DNA testing on those items, that you would develop a clear profile, and if that profile does not match Tyrone, Knowling or anyone of his code defendence, that's

going to be very very strong evidence of his innocence. Unfortunately, we're not able to convince the court to allow us to conduct that DNA testing, and so to this day that evidence has not been tested. In the meantime, Tyrone's other attorneys had filed a motion for new trial based on very specific pieces of evidence that were uncovered at the end of the original investigation by the Sheriff's Department, Specifically, first of all, the Nathan Chesley tip that was uncovered

in Tyrone's co defendants files. Secondly, the statement by Marlene van Steinberg that the gun that had been eliminated from Vennis van Steinberg was not the actual gun that he had on the night that the murder may have taken place. And finally, it had been known at the time that police had excluded Tyrone and his friends from the cigarette

but using this more primitive protein testing. But they had been concerned enough about Dan Wilson as a suspect that they had tested Dan Wilson against that cigarette but and he was not able to be excluded using that prior primitive technology that was not turned over we believe to the defense at the time of the original trial either

now here today. We are still waiting for an opportunity to fully examine the prosecutor's files, to fully examine the Shares files, to try to see what, if anything, was in these files that was subject to disclosure back at the original trial. In God, it's just too much, I mean this one, really, it just goes beyond my ability

to comprehend. There's so many things, and it seems like any one of them, in a fair and just system would be enough for an adult somewhere to step in and go This has gone on too long, But on it goes, and Tyrone remains on death route right now while we're having this conversation. If he were to get a fair trial today, with all of the evidence that we know in front of a jury, there's no chance that he would be convicted. And to be in a world where this is all sort of continuing to happen,

it's continuing to advance in slow motion. I mean, it's surreal. Certainly, our hope is that he is successful in his current post conviction litigation, that we're able to put this evidence finally in front of a jury and give him a fair day in court. Amen to that, And Tyrone, for our audience listening today, for someone who wants to see you have that fair shot, which I'm sure everyone in our audience does, and who wants to help and to

get involved with righting this wrong. Is there something that you'd like to ask them to do. I would encourage them to reach out to our governor, to reach out to stay in local politicians. I would ask them to be a voice. Somebody out there knows something and they can go to Tyrone Knowling dot com or they can get Ahold of the Innocent Cincinnati in this this project that they're willing to help or to be a voice,

because I need a voice. I need that more than anything. Yeah, we'll definitely have Tyrone Nolan dot com linked in our bio, so please go there and learn what steps you can take to help. And I also want to mention there's a TV docuseries called Death Row Stories that did a piece on this case last year called The Lost Boy, which shows a very powerful case for the actual innocence of Tyrone. And with that we turn now to closing arguments.

This is the part of our show where I thank you Tyrone knowling To for just being with us today sharing your story, and also Brian Howe for fighting tirelessly. So again, thank you for doing what you're doing and for being here and sharing this awful story with our audience. And now closing arguments works just like this. I'll kick back in my chair and turn my microphone off, leave my headphone, so I'll close my eyes and just listen

to any final thoughts you want to share. So Brian, why don't you go first and we'll save the best for last. And that's, of course that's you Tyrone. So Brian closing arguments, Well, you know, first, let me thank you Jason for what you all are doing here. As surreal as it sometimes seems that this is still happening, it feels good to know that people care, and if the people are paying attention, it feels good to know that there are people who care about what's happening in

this case and what's happening to Tyrone. Again, our hope is that people understand what's happening, that Tyrone get a fair day in court. And the other thing is is that the fact that Tyrone is innocent, but I'm personally convinced of You know, I'm not familiar with every death row case in the country, but I wouldn't be surprised if he were the strongest case of innocence of anyone

currently on death row. That means that there's someone who is responsible for this crime that was never brought to justice. And it means that there could be someone out there right now who knows something that may have for whatever reason, not wanted to come forward and not wanted to get involved. I really truly hope that that person is out there and that they will reach out and come forward with any information that they might have about the Harding murders.

There is a man's life on the line, an innocent man, and if people have information, I truly truly hope that they'll come forward with it and allow it to be raised and brought before the court. And now over to you, Tyrone Well, I would like first thank you, and again I think the most important thing here is a voice. I'm an innocent person on OHIWS death brow and I don't belong here and I need help. Now is the time. This is difficult, It's difficult, cleaning for your life especially

when you haven't been heard for a long time. So I would just like to thank everybody and to encourage them again to look into black case, to get involved, to be a voice for me, and to help me get out of here because I'm innocent. I don't want to be here, So please thank you for listening to Wrongful Conviction. I'd like to thank our production team Connor Hall, Justin Golden, Jeff Clyburne, and Kevin Wardis with research by Lila Robinson. The music in this production was supplied by

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