by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Willie Grimes: Free At Last In 1987, an African-American male forced his way into the home of an elderly woman in Hickory, North Carolina. The intruder warned that he had a knife in his pocket and he would cut her if she did not cooperate. He proceeded to rape her...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Larry Lamb: A Free Man In the early morning hours of February 28, 1987, Mr. Leamon Grady was found dead in his Mount Olive, North Carolina residence from a single gunshot wound to the chest. No murder weapon was ever found. In 1993, Larry Lamb was convicted of...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Joseph Sledge Exonerated after 37 Years In 1976, Joseph Sledge was 34 years old and in his third year of a four-year prison term at a minimum-security facility for larceny and receiving stolen goods convictions. All of Joseph’s prior convictions were for...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree, HP grid
Edward McInnis – 27 years served for a crime he did not commit On February 23, 1988, a man broke into the home of an 81 year old woman in Laurinburg, North Carolina and raped her, stealing money from her purse before leaving through the back door. The woman was...
by Drago Bratic | May 26, 2017 | Exoneree
Johnny Small, arrested at 15, exonerated 28 years later Case Background On July 13, 1988, Pamela Dreher was shot and killed in the fish store she owned in Wilmington, North Carolina. At 5:38 p.m., Ms. Dreher was seen alive by her last known customer. The “no sale”...
