In the book The Innocent Man, a small town is having an occurrence that nobody would have ever dreamed of. In Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was a baseball star, he was the one everyone wanted to be. Ron knew that he was on the rise and thought that one day he would be exactly where he always wanted to be. Until the world turned around for him and baseball stopped being the big picture to him. He started thinking that drugs, alcohol were his only go to. With an injury and the wrong mindset that put his baseball career to a stop he found his way back to his hometown, Ada befriending people he would have never done before.
While being back in his hometown Ron made friends with a man named Dennis Fritz. Dennis was a lot like the new Ron; he was lonely, miserable and following down the wrong path. As Ron started to hang out with Dennis, it was not a surprise to hear that he was thrown into jail that night while being out at a club and having too much to drink. Sometimes he even spent months in there at a time. …show more content…
A local, Debbie Carter, was raped and killed in her own home. The potential killer was obvious at first, it had the be the one and only Glen Gore. No one really thought that it could be anyone else because they knew that he had the reputation to do something horrific like that to a woman. Even though the case was set aside for 5 years, Ron and Dennis were not in the clear. In 1987, the case was opened and they were both charged for what happened to Debbie Carter. Ron got sentenced to death row and Dennis got a life sentence. Ron Williamson is no longer the person everyone thought that he would
While being back in his hometown Ron made friends with a man named Dennis Fritz. Dennis was a lot like the new Ron; he was lonely, miserable and following down the wrong path. As Ron started to hang out with Dennis, it was not a surprise to hear that he was thrown into jail that night while being out at a club and having too much to drink. Sometimes he even spent months in there at a time. …show more content…
A local, Debbie Carter, was raped and killed in her own home. The potential killer was obvious at first, it had the be the one and only Glen Gore. No one really thought that it could be anyone else because they knew that he had the reputation to do something horrific like that to a woman. Even though the case was set aside for 5 years, Ron and Dennis were not in the clear. In 1987, the case was opened and they were both charged for what happened to Debbie Carter. Ron got sentenced to death row and Dennis got a life sentence. Ron Williamson is no longer the person everyone thought that he would