Wrong Man

When 21-year old Jessie Morrison is brutally beaten to death, police zero in on Vonda Smith. The “Wrong Man” team explores whether Vonda may have been wrongfully convicted.

At a hearing in Greeneville, Tennessee, Vonda Smith, who vehemently says she did not kill Jessie Morrison, is denied the opportunity for a new trial. In an effort to reopen the investigation, the “Wrong Man” team talks with the men in Jessie’s life, including her boyfriend Gary Ealey, who Vonda said returned her bloodied car the night Jessie was killed. But during an intense interrogation with inv

On December 15, 1994, Andrew Katrinak arrived home to find his wife and son missing. He discovered his basement door had been tampered with and that the phone wires to a cordless phone had been cut. Police thought that perhaps Joann had left and taken the baby with her. But Andy suspected foul play. When asked who might want to hurt his wife, he told police that his ex-girlfriend Patty Rorrer, who

Patricia Rorrer is found guilty of the abduction and murder of Joann Katrinak and her infant son, Alex. But “Wrong Man” investigators discover that there is no clear timeline between when Joann and Alex disappeared and when their bodies were discovered four months later. They interview a witness who insists she saw Patty with a man five days after her alleged kidnapping. And a forensic entomologis

The “Wrong Man” team explores the case of Kenneth Clair, a homeless black man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal torture and murder of a live-in babysitter, 25-year-old Linda Rodgers, in Santa Ana, California, in 1984. Hours after the murder, a child who lived in the home told police that he had seen a white man kill the babysitter. The “Wrong Man” team examines all aspects of

The “Wrong Man” team widens its examination of the Kenneth Clair case to consider who may have actually tortured and murdered Linda Rodgers. They explore the possibility that new DNA could be extracted from the evidence to help identify the killer. In discussing the violent sexual nature of the murder, the team points out that certain details in the crime scene indicate the killer could have been