True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV - ABC7 online
Allegations of an investigation spinning out of control quickly follow. Who knows what went on behind closed doors. How many lives will be shattered in the process? And will justice prevail? True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s5e1: Guilty Until Proven Innocent, ID 2015
In 1993 on the south side of Chicago Tyrone Hood is a married father with three children … Spending more than twenty years behind bars has made that comfort a distant memory. ibid.
[Marshall] Morgan junior never makes it to his date … Police launch a search … ‘He was wedged behind the driver’s seat … nude from the waist down’ … One print on a beer bottle belongs to mechanic and family man Tyrone Hood. ibid.
‘We had a culture here in which the police felt free to beat a confession out of a person. Period.’ ibid. Renee Ferguson, former investigative reporter
With a judge’s order throwing out his murder conviction in-hand, Tyrone Hood truly became a free man as he was exonerated at a Monday morning hearing after spending more than 20 years in prison for a slaying he’s continued to insist he did not commit. ABC7 online article 9th February 2015, ‘Tyrone Hood freed in wrongful conviction case after serving 21 years’