# The Ford Heights Four

Overturned · 1978

The Ford Heights Four (Verneal Jimerson, Dennis Williams, Kenneth Adams, and Willie Rainge) were formerly imprisoned convicts, who were falsely accused and convicted of the double murder of Lawrence Lionberg and Carol Schmal in Ford Heights, Illinois, and later exonerated. Jimerson and Williams were sentenced to death, Adams to 75 years in prison and Rainge to life. Following the murder in 1978, the four spent…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=51816809
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/the-ford-heights-four-w51816809

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