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Prisoner Bob Williams Confesses To Burgess Murder In 1955
The remarkable story follows Robert Earl Williams, a Wilmington Junior High dropout turned multiple corrections wards, who after a life of truancy and parole violations ends up in San Quentin and Folsom. He later falsely confesses to the Burgess murder to justify a connection to a girl he loved, then endures repeated trials and appeals. The piece chronicles his prison life, alleged confessions, and the 1971 truth serum effort by Judge Mills R. Randall to verify innocence through hypnosis and psychiatric review.
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Tracy
Bob Williams
Harbor City
Matthew Manestar
San Pedro
White's Point
Los Angeles Police Department
Harbor Division
Matt Maneslar
Williams
Superior Court
Beach Vasey
San Quentin
Folsom
Independent
Press-Telegram
Long Beach
Ralph Burgess
Burgess
McKinney
Pacific Coast Highway
Manessar
Vasey
Manestar
California
Robert Earl Williams
Soledad
Vacaville
Mills R. Randall
Jerome Lance
Sacramento
Lance