USA - Texas. David Roeder added with number 199 to the

USA - Innocence List

24 June 2024 :

June 21, 2024 - Texas. David Roeder added with number 199 to the "Innocence List". In our ongoing research, the Death Penalty Information Center has identified the exoneration of David Roeder, who was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the January 1978 robbery and murder of three people (pawn shop owner Don Fantich, 33, jewelry store owner Georgina Rose, 46 and Dr. William Fitzpatrick, 31) in Texas. At the time David Allen Roeder, White, was 20. In 1989, prosecutors dismissed all charges against Mr. Roeder, who is the 199th exonerated death-sentenced prisoner in DPIC’s Innocence Database.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/texas-court-of-criminal-appeals-finds-kerry-max-cook-actually-innocent-46-years-after-his-original-conviction

 

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