MrBallen

They clearly didn't do it.

After the real killer was arrested in 1995, Laverne and John were both released from prison.

In total, they both served four years in jail, all because of Laverne's lies.

One morning in early November of 2023, a 71-year-old woman named Patrice Miller stood in front of her fridge in her little home in the rural town of Downeyville, California.

and she saw she was running low on food, which meant it was time to place an order with the market in town, which delivered her groceries for her.

Getting her food delivered was essential for Patrice and where she was at in her life right now.

She lived alone and had a whole house to take care of, which was definitely getting harder the older she got.

She'd also had some health problems lately, so it was getting more difficult just to move around.

You know, she even had a walking stick just to prop herself up.

As Patrice stood in front of her fridge, wondering what she was gonna add to her grocery list,

She heard one of her two cats meowing outside, and this reminded her that, amongst some other chores, she needed to feed her cats.

So she decided to make her list later, and she just closed the fridge door, put some cat food in a bowl, and then grabbed her walking stick and headed outside.

Patrice carried the cat food out onto the porch.

She had some other things to do outside, but she couldn't hold a lot of things at once because of her walking stick.

So once she had put the bowl down, she then headed back inside to get her compost and then took that back outside to her garden.

And she tried to do all these outdoor chores really quickly because she didn't like being outside these days.

She had lived in Downeyville for a long time, but over the past few years, it had gotten really dangerous there.

Now, she hadn't realized how bad it was at first because she mostly kept to herself, but eventually she learned that her neighbors were starting to get intruders on their property.

There had also been a clear uptick in vandalism in people's yards and to their homes.

And in fact, over the past few months, Patrice herself had begun to experience this directly.