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Michael Morton was a supermarket manager in Texas, a husband, and a father. He and  his family lived an average life.
In August 1986, Christine’s body was found in their bed. She had been bludgeoned to death with what appeared to have been a weapon made of wood. The sheets upon which she lay were stained with what was later determined to be semen.
On February 17, 1987, Michael Morton was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison

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In August 1986, Michael Morton celebrated his birthday at a restaurant with his wife, Christine, and their three-year-old son. The next morning, Morton left a note on the bathroom vanity expressing disappointment that his wife had declined to be intimate with him the night before.
They then hypothesized that he had beaten Christine to death because she refused to have sex with him on his birthday.

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His prosecutor, Ken Anderson, knowingly withheld the evidence that could've proved Michael innocent.

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Evidence of Innocence: (NOT used in trial)

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Evidence of Innocence: (NOT used in trial)

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A random green van was seen coming and going from the house.

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Later that year, another woman was found dead in a similar fashion to Christine. Debra Masters Baker is beaten to death in her bed in her North Austin home, 12 miles from where Christine Morton was beaten to death in her bed.

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Evidence of Innocence: (NOT used in trial)

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Evidence of Innocence: (NOT used in trial)

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Eric Morton, their three y/o son, saw the attack on his mother. Eric describes a "monster" with red gloves and a big mustache and says the man was not his father.

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Evidence of Innocence: (Found while Michael in prison

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Evidence of Innocence: (Found while Michael in prison

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bloodstains on a blue bandana recovered near the crime scene were finally tested, revealing traces of not only Christine’s DNA but that of a man named Mark Norwood, a dishwasher in Bastrop with a long criminal history.