The Innocent Killer Quotes

“the names Steve and Lori chose for their two baby boys were William and Billy Jr.”
― Michael Griesbach, The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath

“instance, he and a friend set a cat on fire. The previous year a neighbor’s dog returned home half-castrated, and the neighbor suspected Steve was behind that, too. He once threatened to run his former girlfriend off the road and shoot out her car windows. He told her he was going to put sugar in her gas tank, and a week later she found sand in her motor oil. He was so distraught over their break-up that he told her he was going to burn down her parents’ house”
― Michael Griesbach, The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath

“Steve had cut a deal on the other charges pending against him at the time—the charges associated with his forcing a deputy sheriff’s wife off the road—and he received a six-year sentence for that crime. In other words, he would have spent six of those eighteen years in prison even if he had not been wrongly convicted of the other crime.”
― Michael Griesbach, The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath

“Choosing names for the boys hadn’t been easy. After all, most parents have a difficult time coming up with one name—let alone two. Maybe Lori and her husband Steve didn’t know that Billy is a nickname for William; maybe they didn’t know that tacking “Jr.” at the end of a boy’s name means his name is the same as his dad’s—or maybe they knew both, but just didn’t care. But whatever the reason, the names Steve and Lori chose for their two baby boys were William and Billy Jr.”
― Michael Griesbach, The Innocent Killer