The Innocent Man, Part Two

Pamela Colloff, The Innocent Man, Part Two. Texas Monthly, December 2012. This is Part Two of a two-part story. Part One was published in November 2012. “During the 25 years that Michael Morton spent wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his wife, he kept three things in mind: someday he would prove his innocence to their son. Someday he would find out who had killed her. And someday he would understand how this had happened to him.”

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The Innocent Man, Part One

Pamela Colloff, The Innocent Man, Part One.Texas Monthly, November 2012. This is Part One of a two-part story. Part Two was published in December 2012. “On August 13, 1986, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed. His nightmare had only begun.”

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