Four different men were at one point connected to the murder of Debbie Carter over a series of decades, so her mother, Peggy "Peppy" Carter, had to find her own answers.
Although Tommy Ward confessed to kidnapping, raping and killing Donna Denice Haraway, he later retracted it as a false statement — one partially based on a dream. He’s still serving out his life sentence — but he's not the only person whose dreams supposedly landed them in hot water.
Christy Sheppard, the cousin of murder victim Debbie Carter, came across a book that linked her relative's murder case to the other featured in Neflix's "The Innocent Man" through a snitch's "C-Spot."
Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot were sentenced to death in 1985 for the murder of Denice Haraway, despite the fact that their confessions didn't match the crime they were accused of.
This is your cheat sheet to understanding all the main players in the two 1980s murders that wreaked havoc on Ada, Oklahoma. The Netflix docu-series about the crimes, "The Innocent Man," is now streaming.
John Grisham's book "The Innocent Man," inspiration for the new Netflix docu-series, tells the story of baseball-player-turned-wrongfully-convicted-murderer Ron Williamson.
In 1982, Debra Sue Carter was found murdered in her own home, with a bizarre message written on her back and other ominous writings scrawled about her Ada, Oklahoma apartment.
"I hope I go to neither heaven nor hell... I don't want anybody judging me again," Ron Williamson, subject of Netflix's docu-series "Innocent Man," said on his deathbed after receiving a fatal diagnosis.
