Accident or Murder? Re-creating a Fatal Fall :VIDEO, When Janice Johnson was found lying in a pool of blood at the foot of her basement stairs, the tragedy was ruled an accident—until circumstantial evidence caused the case to be reopened, leading to the imprisonment of her husband for murder. In this program, attorney James Lockyer, of the Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted, calls in pathologists who postulate that Janice really did accidentally fall down the stairs—and prove their theory by having the scenario painstakingly reenacted by a young actress wearing a transom harness.

Criminology

Accident or Murder? Re-creating a Fatal Fall

When Janice Johnson was found lying in a pool of blood at the foot of her basement stairs, the tragedy was ruled an accident—until circumstantial evidence caused the case to be reopened, leading to the imprisonment of her husband for murder. In this program, attorney James Lockyer, of the Association in Defense of the Wrongfully Convicted, calls in pathologists who postulate that Janice really did accidentally fall down the stairs—and prove their theory by having the scenario painstakingly reenacted by a young actress wearing a transom harness.
(26 minutes)
Copyright date: ©1999

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