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"Everything about their confession has been proven wrong by the discovery of the body," attorney Janet Davis noted in the documentary.īoth Ward and Fontenot would go on to recant their confessions. Meanwhile, Fontenot, as explained in the Netflix series, had perhaps offered his testimony to the aggressive police because he both feared for his safety and wanted to escape from what was described as poverty and homelessness. The only evidence the state used in convicting Ward was a confession that he later claimed was spun wildly from a dream he reported, and only came out after intense pressure and hours of brutal interrogation. Instead, she had died from a gunshot wound. More damningly, Haraway had not been been stabbed as the young men had described. The circumstances surrounding Ward and Fontenot's confessions were suspicious from the start, and in fact were later proved to be inconsistent with what had actually happened to Haraway: Her body was ultimately found years after she vanished, 30 miles away from where the duo said they had deposited it. So where are the two men now, more than 30 years later?
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The two insisted they were innocent, but still ended up convicted of Haraway's murder. The tribulations faced by the pair are depicted in Netflix's latest true crime docu-series, " The Innocent Man," based on the John Grisham book of the same name.
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The young woman's disappearance sparked decades of controversy as police scrambled to solve the crime, leading to the convictions of two men: Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot. However, she would never be seen alive again. Denice Haraway of Ada, Oklahoma went in for an ordinary day of work at her convenience store job on April 28, 1984.