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2 Cases |
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Location |
Defendant(s) |
Date of Alleged Crime |
| Beaver County, UT | Bruce Dallas Goodman | Nov 1984 |
| Bruce Dallas Goodman was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Sherry Ann Fales Williams. Williams, 21, was found sodomized, beaten to death and bound near an I-15 exit north of Beaver. At his trial in 1984, two separate witnesses testified for Goodman, saying he was with them in California the night the murder happened. DNA tests later exonerated Goodman of the crime. Goodman was released in Nov. 2004 after he served 19 years of imprisonment. (IP152) [5/08] | ||
| Salt Lake County, UT | Henry Miller | Dec 8, 2000 (Salt Lake City) |
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Henry Miller was convicted of stealing a woman's purse at knifepoint in a Salt Lake City convenience store parking lot. The purse had $50 in it. Miller then allegedly tried to steal the woman’s car, but unable to put the car in reverse, got out and fled. At the time, however, Miller lived 1400 miles away in Louisiana. He had a stroke on Nov. 25, 2000, 14 days before the robbery and took off work for three weeks while he recovered. Hospital and employment records confirmed the stroke and his return to work in Louisiana. Miller had lived in Salt Lake City from 1989 to 1999. He was again in Utah in Feb. 2003, when police stopped him a block away from a restaurant robbery. He was charged in the restaurant robbery and in the 2000 parking lot robbery. However, police dropped charges on the restaurant robbery due to insufficient evidence. The parking lot victim testified she was 100 percent sure that Miller was the thief who snatched her purse. But Miller, then 47, was in his mid-forties at the time of the crime and the victim had told police the robber was between 18 to 21 years old. After gathering new evidence, including testimony by a home health care nurse that Miller was in Louisiana the day before the robbery, Miller’s conviction was overturned. Prosecutors dropped charges a week before a scheduled retrial in July 2007. Miller had served more than 4 years in prison for the alleged theft of $50. (Salt Lake Tribune) [3/08] |
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