Stay updated with breaking news from Tom Set. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Set walter free, tom would learn that it had actually been a second confession that had sent walter to death row. our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure.
Right? but hurry offer ends soon. ♪ in 2001 tom lowenstein was writing a book about the death penalty when he began communicating with convicted child murderer walter ogrod. >> i had nothing to do with this, positively absolutely 100% nothing. i'm 100% innocent on this. >> walter told me early on that he was innocent, but i was intent on figuring the thing out for myself. >> tom learned that in 1993
>> and john sat down with jay and he gave jay the story, and he helped jay write the letter to the d.a.'s office. at the trial, the prosecution told the jury that neither john hall or jay wo wilchansky got a teal for what they did. >> john wrote to me and said he got a sweet deal. john was looking at 50 years and the ogrod case got him off. jay wolchansky only got a few months. >> i had no idea that a d.a.'s office such as in philadelphia could use a snitch ring, you know, could use a guy like john hall over and over and over again. i have the paperwork. i have phyllis, and it's all fitting to...
Journalist, but i knew i was onto something, and i had to keep going. >> tom found clues that jay wolchansky's story may have actually been invented by a fellow inmate, an infamous snitch named john hall. >> john hall's specialty was to take murder cases for which there is no evidence and give the prosecution a conviction. there's this 1997 article in the daily news about john hall, who everybody calls the monsignor because he's heard more confessions than a priest. >> the article said john hall had spoken with police about walter. tom wanted to know why. >> just boggled my mind. the story tha...