Changing a 40 Year Old Version

“They threatened to kill my children, parents, siblings, and me if I did not report to the police and testify at trial that I saw Walter and the other two men set the fire … Everything I told police, and everything I testified to at trial relating to my witnessing the setting of the fire, was a fabrication … As far as I know, Walter had nothing to do with this crime.” Imprisoned nearly 40 years, a Michigan man is freed after a witness recanted her story. Forty years. Holy hell.

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