Randall Adams has died
On October 30, 2010, Randall Dale Adams passed away from a brain tumor. He was 61.
Newspaper article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7626298.html
i saw that. It was interesting that the family kept it secret for so long. The sad thing that i got from the article is that today he would have received a lot of dough from the State of Texas for being falsely imprisoned. He got nothing.
shareMaybe they kept it secret because some people (not me) seem to think he still did it. This is from Officer Wood's memorial page-
Uncle-
Justice was finally served on October 30, 2010. May you rest in peace and we will see you soon. Please continue to watch over me and always remember you are welcome in my patrol car any day. I know mom misses you and she is finally able to breathe relief. We love you and miss you a great deal.
Officer R.L. Willis #813
Niece
July 8, 2011
http://www.odmp.org/officer/14460-officer-robert-w-wood
Wow, thanks for sharing this. Now I'm interested in what R.L. Willis' perspective is on the matter. Has she even seen the documentary?
Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.
I find it a little disturbing that the niece is a police officer.
I wonder if she went into it for the wrong reasons?
What's disturbing about it? I'd think it would give her a better perspective, having an uncle who was railroaded for a crime he didn't commit. So many cops develop "tunnel vision" and don't even entertain the possibility that someone might be innocent.
What wrong reason could there be for her to want to be a cop?
Her uncle was Wood, not Adams …
sharePerhaps in time she'll come to realise the shame of what she's said here.
What she's talking about is cold vengefulness, not justice or relief. The man who's death she's crowing over was innocent of murder, and his life was destroyed just as her uncle's was. If she truly understands the loss of her uncle, then she should be unable to take anything positive from Randall's death; it was another sad consequence of the evil that destroyed Officer Wood.
I can understand her wanting someone to pay for her uncle's death; but what kind of human being can take pleasure from an innocent man paying for the crime, and say it's justice that he's died from a pernicious disease? That's shameful.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.