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Sorry if there is already a thread about this cold case..
It wasn't a cold case... until it was.
Donna Denice Haraway
April 28th 1984,
A 24 year old college student was working at a gas station called, McAnally's in Ada, Oklahoma.
Witnesses have told police that they saw a guy and a girl leaving the gas station and entering in a red and gray truck. They brought the eye witnesses down to the police station, so the witnesses could sit down with a sketch artist.
Haraway's purse was found inside the gas station, along with a open beer can and a lit cigarette.
She was currently sharing an apartment with her husband and working at the gas station to pay her way through school.
The police station got over 20 calls about the sketch and they all said that it looked like a guy that's named Tommy Ward.
They brought Ward back to the station and he denied having any involvements with the disappearance of Donna Denice Haraway, but, he told them a dream that he had that him and two others did kidnap and killed Donna by stabbing her before burning the body.
The other two that Ward mentioned in his dream was, Karl Fontenot and Odell Titsworth.
Fontenot also told the police that he had a similar dream like Ward did. And although they didn't have a body, Fontenot and Ward were tried and sentence to life for the robbery, abduction and murder of Donna Denice Haraway. The third person, Titsworth was never charge because of an injury he sustained two days prior of the abduction that would have made it nearly impossible.
A year later in Gerty, Oklahoma, like 20 miles away from Ada, they found the remains of Haraway scattered in the field. And unlike Ward's or Fontenot's dream, she wasn't stabbed to death but died from a gunshot wound..
The Innocent Project took both of Ward's case and Fontenot's case. They were both tried twice and both times got life. "Fontenot was released from prison after a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled in 2019 that the state committed numerous constitutional violations." "A judge reversed the conviction of Thomas Ward, known to the public as Tommy Ward, in 2020"
To learn more about the case, Robert Mayer wrote a book called, "Dreams of Ada," and she is mentioned a little in John Grisham's book, "The Innocent Man," which he talks about another murder that took place in Ada two years prior.. And there is also a Netflix documentary called, " The Innocent Man." Which discusses these two cases.
It wasn't a cold case... until it was.
Donna Denice Haraway
April 28th 1984,
A 24 year old college student was working at a gas station called, McAnally's in Ada, Oklahoma.
Witnesses have told police that they saw a guy and a girl leaving the gas station and entering in a red and gray truck. They brought the eye witnesses down to the police station, so the witnesses could sit down with a sketch artist.
Haraway's purse was found inside the gas station, along with a open beer can and a lit cigarette.
She was currently sharing an apartment with her husband and working at the gas station to pay her way through school.
The police station got over 20 calls about the sketch and they all said that it looked like a guy that's named Tommy Ward.
They brought Ward back to the station and he denied having any involvements with the disappearance of Donna Denice Haraway, but, he told them a dream that he had that him and two others did kidnap and killed Donna by stabbing her before burning the body.
The other two that Ward mentioned in his dream was, Karl Fontenot and Odell Titsworth.
Fontenot also told the police that he had a similar dream like Ward did. And although they didn't have a body, Fontenot and Ward were tried and sentence to life for the robbery, abduction and murder of Donna Denice Haraway. The third person, Titsworth was never charge because of an injury he sustained two days prior of the abduction that would have made it nearly impossible.
A year later in Gerty, Oklahoma, like 20 miles away from Ada, they found the remains of Haraway scattered in the field. And unlike Ward's or Fontenot's dream, she wasn't stabbed to death but died from a gunshot wound..
The Innocent Project took both of Ward's case and Fontenot's case. They were both tried twice and both times got life. "Fontenot was released from prison after a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled in 2019 that the state committed numerous constitutional violations." "A judge reversed the conviction of Thomas Ward, known to the public as Tommy Ward, in 2020"
To learn more about the case, Robert Mayer wrote a book called, "Dreams of Ada," and she is mentioned a little in John Grisham's book, "The Innocent Man," which he talks about another murder that took place in Ada two years prior.. And there is also a Netflix documentary called, " The Innocent Man." Which discusses these two cases.
Exonerated man in 'Dreams of Ada' case says U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't get involved
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled in 2019 that newly discovered evidence provided "solid proof" of Karl Fontenot's probable innocence.
www.oklahoman.com
