The last time Morton ever saw his wife alive, she was sleeping in their bed when he left for work. Several hours later, while she was home alone with their young son, someone broke into the house and brutally murdered her. There was also evidence that she had been sexually assaulted. But there was never any eyewitness or physical evidence to suggest that Morton had committed the crime. In fact, their son—who saw the murder—later told the police that the killer was not his father, but a man he called “a monster.” The police and the prosecutor never gave that information to Morton or his
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