On April 25, 1989, James Richardson was exonerated after spending 21 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit—the poisoning deaths of his seven children in 1967. A Florida fruit picker, Richardson was wrongfully convicted after flawed police work, suppressed evidence, and false testimony. His neighbor, Bessie Reece, had poisoned the children’s lunch, but […]
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