43 YEARS STOLEN: SANDRA HEMME
America's Longest-Serving Wrongfully Convicted Woman
In 1980, Sandra Hemme was convicted of murdering library worker Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was heavily sedated, manipulated by investigators, and coerced into a confession she couldn't remember making. She would spend the next 43 years in prison for a crime she didn't commit.
In 2024, a judge finally declared her innocent—but the state of Missouri fought to keep her locked up anyway.
📖 What's Inside:
- The coerced confession: how police extracted false statements from a sedated woman
- The real killer: law enforcement officer Michael Holman and the evidence ignored
- 43 years of appeals, denials, and legal failures
- The judge's 100-page ruling dismantling the prosecution's case
- Missouri's unprecedented fight to keep an innocent woman imprisoned
- The final days before exoneration
A devastating examination of how the justice system fails—and the extraordinary resilience of those who survive it.
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