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Pobular.com True Crime Historian presents Sunday Magazine 23 when justice fails.

Episode 252 tells of two cases when the wheels of justice had a blowout, and people were convicted of crimes they didn't commit. Later on, you'll hear

from our favorite pioneer of true crime, Edmund Pearson, telling the story of two

brothers accused of murder after the discovery of two clipped toe names. But first up, listen to this

classic case from Peter Levin's Ace Crime Reporter from the New York Daily News about how a

deathbed confession made liars out of a whole bunch of witnesses

and law enforcement officials. I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones, and for your delight

and indignation, I give you 23 years scadoo. What was justice in this case? By Peter Levens.

What was justice in this case?

Man gets life term for murder, later paroled after 23 years in jail.

Why an innocent man spent a quarter century in prison before he was liberated by a deathbed

confession. By Peter Levin's.

The victim in this case was Clyde Schoewalter, a young farmer of Patton, Illinois.

That is to say, he was the individual who was murdered.

The other principle in the story might also be classified as a victim, although he was not

murdered, not literally.

Showalter on that fatal day, October 19, 1905, hitched his team to a light spring wagon and drove to Mount Carmel, five miles north of the farm where he lived with his wife and son.

In Mount Carmel, he sold a load of hogs for $1,845.

It was a cash sale. During the afternoon and night, farmers and traders gathered, as was customary, in the town's saloons, Clyde Schoewalter, among them.

Clyde became very convivial, frequently displaying his bulging role, and finally started for home. But he never reached home. In the morning, Mrs.

Showalter notified the sheriff of Wabash County, who started a search. Friends reported

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