Ogrod Case News Today

Hours. police immediately launched a hunt for her killer. but years past before a suspect confessed. even then, the case was far from over. decades later, an investigation would reveal abuses of power. deep inside philadelphias legal system. from the homicide unit, to the prosecutors office. here is lester holt with the investigation! >> when sharon was 21 years old, she lived in northeast philadelphia. and worked at a department store. but her greatest shame was to have a daughter. >> i had a g...

He is done at all. we >> i am glad you will be in jail with and he will not get out to hurt somebody else. >> at last the say hes had the verdict that they had hope for. >> he was responsible, all that mattered was that they never get the opportunity to do it again. >> i wanted him, did i did. >> but tom was about to embark on his own investigation into barbara jean horn murder, and you could soon be faced with a difficult question. what would sharon and john think? it turned out that neither ju...

Closer to her mom? >> i wondered how they had come up with this crap. we >> thought it was enough to convince the jury that ogrod was guilty and deserve to die. >> did you look at the jury? >> they were stonefaced. they were like yeah, we want to just get rid of. you >> ogrod was shipped off to death row. five years later, he met tom lowenstein. >> he just had to dig and dig, he was relentless. >> in 2004, tom wrote a lengthy two part series for the philadelphia city paper, which included everyt...

Aspergers kids that my friends work with. >> for tom, meeting ogrod in person changed everything. the man sitting across from him seemed incapable of conveying the words and emotions that the detective claimed he did in the confession. >> that supposedly verbatim admission, just did not match up with the guy that you had been face to face with? >> yeah, the story that detectives tell about walters confession is that they never interrupted him, he just point out is hard to him. he started crying ...

Philadelphia native. who worked as an overnight bakery truck driver. >> they called him up and asked him to come in as a witness. they were just talking to people in the neighborhood, and he said all right. and he went in. >> they told him he was going to go see the philadelphia police about the murder. >> walter ogrod friend, steve, vividly remember speaking with him that day. >> i said you should not go down there without a lawyer. i express that numerous times. maybe three or four times. >> w...