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Thomas Gladish Murder Case
Thomas Gladish, Richard Greer, Ronald Keine and Clarence Smith were all convicted the same year and released the same year. All four men were convicted of kidnapping, murder and rape and they were all sentenced to death. They were released when the murder weapon was traced to a drifter in South Carolina who admitted to the killing.
When Ron Keine was convicted he was a college student in Detroit. He joined a biker gang in California, he studied to be a psychologist. Before that he It was said that Keine and three other guys Thomas Gladish, Richard Greer and Clarence Smith borrowed a van for a trip and stopped by the police in Oklahoma. They were harassed by the police, arrested and charged for armed robbery at a gas station.
At the trial,

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