| Freedom For Tonya Hudkins McCartor (Margo Freshwater) | |
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About The Case Margo Freshwater was a young high school dropout, age 18, who had an argument with her mom and set out to find a lawyer for her boyfriend, who was in jail in Memphis. This was in 1966. In December of that year she met a lawyer who said he could help her; he was 38. Authorities say that she and the lawyer were involved in some robberies in a four-state area, which led to the murders of 3 people. However, when they were caught the lawyer, he was said to be mentally incompetent to stand trial. He only served 15 years in a mental institution and now walks the streets a free man. But Margo, having been tried by two courts with each resulting in a hung jury, but the third found her guilty of murder and she was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Fearing for her life from the lawyer, who said he would kill her even in prison, she followed another inmate over a 10-foot fence and never looked back. On May 19, 2002 the authorities of Tennessee and Ohio, through the help of Unsolved Mysteries, arrested Margo, now known as Tonya Hudkins McCartor, and sent her back to the Tennessee Prison for Women. We believe very strongly that she is innocent, and we intend to prove it, but the cost of doing so is more than most people can afford, as is the case with our family.
If you feel that this could never happen to you, please realize that we felt exactly the same way. Imagine how it would feel to have a very close loved one suddenly taken from you, charged with doing something you know in your heart she would never do. This is what we have been facing. |
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