In 1997, Tim Howard and his best friend, Brian Day, were avid drug users in the small town

of Ashdown, Arkansas.

Brian Dell drugs to support his habit, and it was no secret that he was a debt to some

major players.

On December 13, 1997, an anonymous caller notified police that a U-Haul parked on property

owned by Tim Howard's family was dripping blood.

When police cracked the padlock, they found Brian Day severely beaten and shot with a

38-calibre bullet.

When police went to tell Brian's wife, Shannon, the bad news, they found her lifeless body

in a closet under a mattress.

The couple's seven-month-old boy Trevor was zipped into a duffel bag with an electrical

cord wrapped around his neck miraculously still alive.

Tim knew about the drug deal Brian had coordinated that must have gone bad so he understandably

fled town as did 10 other people in Ashdown's underworld.

Despite many obvious leads for the investigation, including aggressive characters seen making

threats against Brian and Shannon just days before the murders, police zeroed in on their

only black friend, Tim Howard and his flighty behavior.

With no physical evidence whatsoever connecting Tim to the crime that couldn't be explained

away by his close friendship with the days, the state conjured up a motive completely based

in fantasy stirring up a visceral response from the jury.

That, along with a clear Brady violation, would send Tim Howard to death row.

This is wrongful conviction with Jason Flamm.

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