WALTER J. OGROD | May be the dumbest man on Earth | Spent 30 years on DR after lying to the police about raping and killing a 4-year-old girl | Ordered to be released in 2020 | ALS from Waynesburg DR

Walter J. Ogrod. ALS. #10. Pmk: June 29, 2007. SEALED. Content unknown. Pristine.

In April 1992, Walter Ogrod (hereinafter referred to as “Wally”), a neighbor of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn (hereinafter referred to as “BJ”), confessed to luring BJ into his basement, attempting to sexually assault her, bludgeoning her to death with a metal exercise bar and then placing her body in a cardboard television box on nearby St. Vincent Street.

In April 2018, the new Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner, revealed that Wally’s conviction would be reviewed. In addition, a district attorney spokesman revealed that prosecutors would no longer try to prevent DNA evidence in the case from being tested, including fingernail scrapings from the victim. DNA testing was concluded in January 2020, with the results definitively excluding Wally as the source. In light of the new DNA test results, Krasner filed a motion to have Wally’s 1996 murder conviction overturned, which was set to go before a judge on March 27, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was delayed until June 2020. On June 5, 2020, Wally's conviction was vacated by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, and he was ordered to be released from prison.ⁱ

Problem is … he wasn’t guilty.

Philadelphia man who’s been on death row for 30 years for the murder of a four-year-old girl is deemed “likely innocent” by DA who slams conviction as a “gross miscarriage of justice”

• Walter Ogrod, 55, was convicted of murdering Barbara Jean Horn, 4, in 1988 and sentenced to death
• Wally, who's been on death row since 1996, has always maintained his innocence
• Office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner last week (c. 2020) filed documents asking a judge to vacate his conviction and release him from prison
• Motion slams prosecution as a “gross miscarriage of justice” and accuses two lead detectives of using coercive methods to extract confession from Wally
• According to DA’s office, prosecutors concealed evidence that BJ was likely asphyxiated, not beaten to death, played a major role in Wally’s trial
• There is no “credible evidence” proving that he was the person who killed the child, court filing arguesⁱⁱ

• VIDEO: Who killed Barbara Jean Horn? | https://youtu.be/bHAnGR_LI_M
  
• VIDEO: Sentenced To Death: The murder that unsettled Arkansas | https://youtu.be/ampaN4sXAuI
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