Atlanta Magazine
2000
A survivor’s frightening account.
It was one of the most brutal attacks the cops had ever seen. It also might have sent an innocent man to prison.
An investigation by ProPublica, PBS Frontline and NPR has found that medical examiners and coroners have repeatedly mishandled cases of infant and child deaths, helping to put innocent people behind bars.
When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out.