John Grisham, the author of The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town, explores a legitimate criminal case that rattled the small town of Ada, Oklahoma from 1982 and on. Debbie Carter, a 21-year-old woman who worked at a bar called the Coachlight, was brutally murdered in her own home on December 7, 1982. She was found in her bedroom, covered in bruises and messages written in ketchup and surrounded by evidence, such as a bloody palm print, hair, fingerprints, and more messages. The police department began searching for any possible suspects immediately following the death, specifically two possible suspects because they were convinced that the crime could not have been committed single-handedly. Two men, Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz, eventually made their ways onto the suspect list, and became the strongest of the suspects.…