May 4, 2021
20 min read
The Rape That Never Was: Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb
The true story behind the first person exonerated by DNA
It was Saturday, July 9, 1977, shortly before 11 p.m. A Homewood, Illinois police officer was making his normal patrol rounds when he happened upon a teenage girl standing beside a road located not far from a shopping mall. The girl, sixteen-year-old Cathleen…
