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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 true crime book by John Grisham, his only nonfiction title as of 2020.The book tells the story of Ronald 'Ron' Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.
Ron Williamson. Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was a former minor league baseball catcher/pitcher who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to ...
Norman was born on October 13, 1927, [1]: 41 in Ada, Oklahoma, [2] [4] and is known to have lived in California, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas. [5] A July 1944 article from his hometown's newspaper, The Ada Weekly News, states that he moved to Houston with his family in 1943.
Apr. 15—CUSHING — The Ada High School girls golf team still couldn't quite catch Hilldale during the Tara Robbins Invitational Monday at the Buffalo Rock Golf Club. But the Lady Cougars are ...
Law enforcement in Mexico are claiming that the allegations made against a resort in Cancun are false and that the college girls from Oklahoma State University were never poisoned or drugged.. The ...
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. [ 4] The population was 16,481 at the 2020 United States Census. The city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. [ 5] Ada is home to East Central University, and is the capital of the Chickasaw Nation.
530 E. Main St., Ada, Oklahoma 74820 USA. Circulation. 5,000 Daily [1] Website. theadanews .com. The Ada News is a daily newspaper published five days a week in Ada, Oklahoma. The publication's coverage area includes Pontotoc County and portions of Coal County, Garvin County, Hughes County, Johnston County, Murray County and Seminole County.
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (February 8, 1924 – October 18, 1995) was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma. She applied for admission into the University of Oklahoma law school in order to challenge the state's segregation laws and to become a lawyer.