"The Innocent Man" Smoking Guns (TV Episode 2018) Poster

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(2018)

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7/10
We need some answers here.
Sleepin_Dragon22 February 2021
Another suspect for for the Denice's murder, Glen Gore is arrested.

Considering how Ada is such a small town, I am struggling to understand how the investigations into both crimes just seem to incompetent, the deaths of the two women were horrific, and you can see what it's done to their families, but several men were arrested, and their lives were also destroyed. We have Glen, and now Billy.

Looking at Ron, he looks horrific, a few years in prison did literally ruin the man's life, he's 49, he looks 69. Dennis Fritz was fortunately able to make some of life for himself, until his accident.

There seems to be so much incompetence here, did they just arrest someone for the sake of it? That's how the documentary is leading you.

There is so much to take in, just when you think the series has delivered the outcome, they throw in a curve ball, with more suspects. Ada, in the early 1980's has stopped feeling like the safe, small, tight knit community we were told it was.

The format is proving to be a little frustrating. 7/10.
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1/10
Extremely frustrating
freya_works3 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This entire series is replete with issues, including leaving out vital facts and context that result in a misleading experience for viewers. However, this is easily the worst episode so far. In addition to the inaccuracies and lack of context, having to suffer through the "reporter's" uptalk is maddening. Take a public speaking course.

The conspiracy theory of police corruption has no basis in reality. The errors made in the investigations of these two cases can be traced back to one simple explanation: the investigators were in over their heads. They were inexperienced (Debbie Carter's was the first homicide that Dennis Smith - deceased, btw, and unable to defend himself - ever handled), and they made serious errors. Those errors resulted in the incaraceration of two innocent people and substantial additional trauma for the Carter family.

Talk about the real villain - Glenn Gore. He committed a crime so awful that it defies imagination and then framed someone else for it. He stayed quiet while Williamson sat on death row and Fritz faced life in prison. All indications are that he would have held his silence even through an execution. And when DNA left him as the prime suspect? He ran. And what was Gore's defense at his own trial? Fritz and Williamson did it.
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