Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn’s murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false. On June 5 of that year, Ogrod’s conviction was vacated by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and he was ordered to be released from prison. He had spent three decades on death row.
Problem is … he wasn’t guilty!
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”
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