The True Story of How a Series of Lies Sent an Innocent Man to Prison
Cleveland Sanford and Wilcox When I interviewed Cleveland Sanford, I asked him what he would have done if he had known about Ronelle Wilcox’s service with CASA. He said, “I wouldn’t leave somebody that was a CASA volunteer on a child case. I mean, I just wouldn’t do it…unless I didn’t have any other options.” …
Ronelle Wilcox and CASA Let’s look at the courtroom floor plan again. When Sanford asked his question about CASA there were seven out of ten potential jurors remaining on the front row. Juror #1 was gone, and so were #3 and #7. Ms. Wilcox had one empty space on her right and another on her …
Take a look at this courtroom floor plan image. It’s a seating chart of where the remaining 64 prospective jurors were sitting after their jury cards were shuffled. In the court transcript, they were referred to mostly by number from that point forward. After the break, Hawes explained the results of the shuffling to …
References to these images will be found in the chapter in Aggravated titled, The Night of Beau’s 21st Birthday Party. On the 13th and 14th of February, 2004, the National Weather Service reported that a winter storm “swept across all of North Texas,” leaving “some of the heaviest snowfalls” in that area in over …
References to these images will be found in the chapter in Aggravated titled, The Night of the Rodeo. For those of you who have never seen a standard-shift four-on-the floor, this was the gear pattern in the small Ford Courier that Steve gave Rhonda Bresnick and Hanna a ride home from the rodeo in. Each …
Here are some more images that could have been in Aggravated, but were put here to reduce the cost of the book. References to these images will be found in the chapters titled, The Night of the Harry Potter, Parts 1 and 2. Some Stills From the First Video, taken on 10-18-2015 Hanna claimed that, …
To see the following images in context of the full description of the voir dire proceedings that day, follow this link to the first post in a nine-post series, or you can just use the images below if you’re reading along with the text in the print version of Aggravated. This was the arrangement of …
Floor Plan of the Bathroom This may give you some idea why Tiffany Sperger’s lie, about Marri seeing Steve and Hanna in a compromising position on the toilet, is ridiculous on the face of it. First, the door opens inward, and blocks the view of the toilet, so how would Marri have seen it? The …
Following are a series of images and explanations. Here are a few of the images that could have been in the book if I had wanted the print version to be dozens of pages longer and far more costly. I hope I haven’t made it too inconvenient for anyone by putting them here on the …