# Walter Ogrod case

Overturned · 1988

Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn's murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false. On June 5 of that year, Ogrod's conviction was vacated by the Philadelphia Court of Common…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=57260928
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/walter-ogrod-case-w57260928

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1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=57260928


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