Walter Ogrod said police coerced his confession and a Common Pleas judge overturned the conviction three years ago after he spent 28 years in prison.
Walter Ogrod, who was convicted in the murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, has reached a $9.1 million wrongful conviction settlement with the cityA Philadelphia man who was released from prison after spending nearly three decades on death row for a murder he says he did not commit has reached a $9.1 millionWalter Ogrod was arrested and sentenced to death after being convicted in the July 1988 murder of 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn.
Police investigate the death of Barbara Jean Horn in this Action News report from 1988Ogrod went to trial twice - the first was declared a mistrial before he was convicted in October of 1996. Ogrod said police coerced his confession and a Common Pleas judge overturned the conviction three years ago after he spent 28 years in prison."I believe firmly he was wrongly convicted," Horn's mother has previously said. "We hope that we get to have the person who took Barbara Jean away from us to pay for the crimes that he did."Action News reached out to the City of Philadelphia for comment on the settlement.
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