5 David Camm
David Camm was a former state trooper who lived in Georgetown, Indiana, with his wife, Kim, and their two children, seven-year-old Brad and five-year-old Jill. On September 28, 2000, David returned home to discover that his wife and children had been shot to death inside their garage.
Three days later, David was charged with the murders after blood spatters were found on his T-shirt. David claimed that the blood had been transferred to his shirt during an attempt to revive his son, and 11 witnesses verified that he had been at a basketball game that evening. The prosecution discounted this alibi, believing that David had murdered his family to collect on a substantial life insurance policy. At David’s trial, numerous women testified that he had conducted extramarital affairs with them. He was convicted on three counts of murder and sentenced to 195 years in prison.
However, the prosecution failed to disclose that a sweatshirt was found at the murder scene with unidentified DNA. This DNA and a palm print on the family’s SUV were eventually matched to a career criminal named Charles Boney. Boney would claim that he had conspired with David to murder his family but that David had committed the actual shootings himself.
In 2006, David received a second trial and was convicted again, thanks to Boney’s testimony and to allegations that David was molesting his daughter. Years later, David wound up getting a third trial after the Indiana Supreme Court determined that the unproven molestation accusations had prejudiced the jury.
The prosecution once again called on Boney to testify. But this time, the defense countered with additional samples of Boney’s DNA, which were found under Kim’s fingernails. This convinced the jury that Boney was solely responsible for the murders, and David Camm was finally acquitted in October 2013.

4 Debra Milke
In 1989, a recently divorced mother named Debra Milke and her four-year-old son, Christopher, moved into a Phoenix apartment with a man named Jim Styers. On December 2, Styers took Christopher on a shopping trip to a mall while Debra stayed behind at the apartment. Later that day, Styers would claim that Christopher had gotten lost at the mall and reported him missing.
One of Styers’s friends, Roger Scott, caught the attention of the police and was questioned. Scott eventually confessed that he and Styers had taken Christopher to a remote desert area and shot him three times in the head. Scott then led police to Christopher’s body, and both he and Styers were charged with murder. However, in a shocking turn of events, Styers and Scott both claimed that Debra had arranged for them to kill her son. She was charged with
conspiracy to commit first-degree murder .
The prosecution’s case against Debra rested squarely on the testimony of a police detective named Armando Saldate, who had interrogated her. Saldate claimed that Debra had confessed to her involvement in Christopher’s murder. Even though no recordings or notes about this alleged confession existed, Debra and her two accomplices were all sentenced to death.
Debra never stopped maintaining her innocence, and years later, it was discovered that the prosecution had failed to turn Detective Saldate’s personnel file over to the defense. The file showed that Saldate had a history of misconduct and extracting questionable confessions from suspects. This put Debra’s supposed confession into serious question.
Since Saldate’s testimony was the only evidence against her, the conviction was thrown out. Debra Milke was released from death row in 2013, and the charges against her were officially dismissed 19 months later.

3 Debbie Loveless And John Harvey Miller
In 1989, Debbie Loveless and her husband, John Harvey Miller, lived in Emory, Texas, with April Tucker, Debbie’s four-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. According to the couple, April was playing outside their home on January 4 when she was mauled by a pack of dogs and seriously wounded. She was rushed to the hospital, where she died on the operating table during surgery.
From the outset, police were skeptical about the couple’s story and believed that the dogs were too small to have inflicted those injuries on April. The medical examiner confirmed their suspicions when he concluded that April’s wounds were caused by a knife. Less than two weeks later, Debbie and John were charged with their daughter’s murder. A hunting knife and curling iron were found in their home and believed to have been used to inflict injuries on April.
At the couple’s trial, their lawyers made no attempt to provide evidence which supported their story about a dog attack and never received April’s autopsy or emergency room photos. Debbie and John were both found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Years later, the couple procured the services of a new appellate attorney who managed to obtain postmortem photos of April. He was surprised to discover the presence of paw prints on her body.
Numerous experts saw the photos and believed that the evidence supported a dog attack, especially when DNA testing found canine saliva on April’s clothing. While there were genuine knife wounds on April’s body, those had actually been made during her surgery at the hospital. In December 1993, Debbie Loveless and John Harvey Miller both had their
convictions overturned and were released from prison.

2 Julie Rea
In the early morning hours of October 13, 1997, 28-year-old divorced mother Julie Rea awoke in her Lawrenceville, Illinois, home and claimed that she heard her 10-year-old son, Joel Kirkpatrick, screaming. When Julie ran into Joel’s bedroom, she crossed paths with a masked intruder. After they scuffled outside in the yard and the intruder ran off, Julie discovered that Joel had been stabbed multiple times in his bed.
However, the police were skeptical of Julie’s story. At the time, Julie was engaged in a bitter custody dispute with Joel’s father. This was used as a possible motive for the crime, and a grand jury would indict Julie for her son’s murder in October 2000. Julie’s ex-husband provided damaging testimony at her trial. She was convicted and received a 65-year sentence.
In 2003, a writer named Diane Fanning was working on a book about convicted serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells. Sells told Fanning that he had once broken into a home and stabbed a boy to death before scuffling with his mother, a story which sounded remarkably similar to Julie Rea’s account of her son’s murder. The timeline also seemed to match up since Sells had raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl in Springfield, Missouri, two days after Joel’s murder.
Shortly thereafter, Julie’s conviction was thrown out on a technicality, and she received a retrial in 2006. This time, Julie’s ex-husband was not allowed to testify, but Sells’s confession would be admitted into evidence. Julie’s defense team also pointed out that in spite of the brutal murder scene, there was virtually no blood found on her clothing and the police had
overlooked potential evidence which supported the presence of an intruder. On this occasion, the jury believed Julie’s story and acquitted her.

1 Jean Calas
On October 13, 1761, a 63-year-old merchant named Jean Calas found his 29-year-old son, Marc-Antoine, dead inside his shop in Toulouse, France. Marc-Antoine’s family seemed adamant that he had been murdered by an unknown intruder.
However, the Calas family was Protestant. Since Catholicism was the dominant religion in France during that time period, Jean Calas would become a victim of that era’s prejudice. Rumors began circulating that Marc-Antoine’s own family had murdered him because he was planning to convert to Catholicism.
After the Calas family was imprisoned and interrogated, they changed their story and claimed that Marc-Antoine had actually hanged himself . Since suicide was considered an unforgivable sin at that time, Jean attempted to avoid embarrassment for his family by staging Marc-Antoine’s death to look like a murder. Unfortunately for Jean, the authorities did not believe his story and accused him of killing his son.
On March 9, 1762, Jean was convicted of Marc-Antoine’s murder and sentenced to death. In an attempt to extract a confession from him, Jean was brutally tortured before his execution. However, Jean steadfastly maintained his innocence and refused to implicate any other family members before his death sentence was carried out.
The lack of confession caused uncertainty about Jean’s guilt, and the case eventually drew the attention of the noted French philosopher Voltaire. He believed that Calas was innocent and a victim of religious persecution. Voltaire uncovered convincing evidence that Marc-Antoine had committed suicide and presented it to the French government, which threw out Jean’s conviction. On March 9, 1765, the third-year anniversary of Jean Calas’s unjust execution, a panel of judges acquitted him of all charges, restoring his family’s name.

The truth they say will surely prevail

D God who sees all things in secret must surely vindicate his own.