Introduction

                                                                     Introduction


                    This is the twenty-three-year journey of a man who has continuously fought for his freedom because he’s innocent. Caught up in a corrupt judicial system apathetic to what used to be a required point of law – evidence.
                   Gary Thibodeau, is an ongoing injustice that has happened many times throughout our history. It is estimated that 1 out of every 25-people convicted for a major crime is innocent. How can this happen in America? The approach of the judicial system has become lazy and full of corruption. Garys, brother Richard happened to be at the store where Heidi worked on that fateful morning. Richard also happened to have a white van similar to the vehicle used in the actual kidnapping of Heidi Allen. Richard was an easy mark who would conveniently put the crime to bed quickly.
                    His brother Gary Thibodeau, was convicted in 1995, to twenty-five years to life for the abduction of Heidi M. Allen. He was convicted without DNA evidence; the body and weapon was never recovered. There were no witnesses to place Gary at the scene of the crime.
                    Each year many like Gary are wrongfully incarcerated. Statistics with the Innocence Project shows one in every four Americans arrested are wrongfully accused and 1 in every 25 go to death row. Twenty five percent of cases tested alone, using DNA capability, excluded the DA's prime suspect. The reluctance of the prosecution to admit that they sent the wrong person to prison, even after uncontroversial evidence is produced and the State court system makes it even more difficult to secure a release for an innocent individual.
                   In most cases, it takes approximately fifteen years or more for an innocent voice to be heard or to free an innocent human being, that has been wrongfully convicted.
                   Our laws are built off the idea, that it is better that ten guilty people flee, than for one innocent to suffer.
                   This is the story of one innocent Gary Thibodeau who has suffered so that ten guilty could flee.