The Rape That Never Was: Gary Dotson and Cathleen Crowell Webb
The true story behind the first person exonerated by DNA
20 min readMay 4, 2021
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…