An overwhelming body of evidence indicated that he was innocent, including a coerced and false confession and the likelihood that Arridy wasn’t even in Pueblo at the time of the slaying. [6], When Sheriff Carroll contacted the Pueblo police chief Arthur Grady about Arridy, he learned that they had already arrested a man considered to be the prime suspect: Frank Aguilar, a laborer from Mexico. Many elements of the story made no sense at all. He was reported to have smiled while being taken to the gas chamber. The attack on the young girls drove the town into an uproar, led newspapers to declare that a sex-crazed murderer was on the lo… [7] He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die. They had immigrated from Syria. [quote="NiceGuy"]In 2011, Arridy was granted a full and unconditional posthumous pardon. Sherrif Carroll would later testify – form his memory, as there were no notes, no witnesses for most of the interrogation – a harrowing story about the night of the attack. An ax head was recovered from Aguilar's home. This suggests that officers fed him this information, or provided it by leading questions. Joe’s father worked for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Works and they all lived in a small house owned by the company. [6], Mentally disabled American man wrongly convicted and executed for rape/murder, List of wrongful convictions in the United States, "Colorado governor pardons man executed for murder in 1939", "Disabled man executed in 1939 pardoned in Colorado", "Condemned Prisoner to give train to another slayer", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Arridy&oldid=974308824, 20th-century executions of American people, Recipients of American gubernatorial pardons, Overturned convictions in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Falsely accused, wrongly convicted and executed for rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, Arridy was the subject of a 1944 poem, "The Clinic", by writer, In 2007–2008 producers Max and Micheline Keller, George Edde, and Yvonne Karouni, and Dan Leonetti, screenwriter, announced plans to make a film about Arridy and Gail Ireland, to be called. After being transported to Pueblo, Arridy reportedly confessed again,[8] giving several versions of the murder in multiple confessions, with repeated errors of fact. They would create di… Arridy was admitted at the age of ten to the State Home and Training School for Mental Defectives in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he lived on and off until becoming a young adult. [6] They noted he was "incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and therefore, would be unable to perform any action with a criminal intent."[1][2]. [6], Frank Aguilar later confessed to the crime and told police he had never seen or met Arridy. The hatchet head recovered from Frank’s house was brought to the station and Joe Arridy was asked if he recognized the hatchet? Joe Arridy was born in Pueblo, Colorado on April 29, 1915 to Henry and Mary Arridy. The attack on the sisters, Barbara and Dorothy were remarkably similar to another attack on two sleeping women that occurred just two weeks earlier. Both in his neighborhood and at the school, he was often mistreated and beaten by his peers. :what: https://i.reddit.com/r/MorbidReality/co ... er_inmate/, http://www.westword.com/news/joe-arridy ... ow-5118031, https://morbidology.com/the-happiest-ma ... oe-arridy/. Discover amazing horror stories, conspiracy theories, Murder Mysteries, Alien Life, Unsolved Mysteries, latest breakthrough Science news, and much more on Bugged Space ! Attorney Gail L. Ireland, who later was elected and served as Colorado Attorney General and Colorado Water Commissioner, became deeply involved as defense counsel in Arridy's case after his conviction and sentencing. You'd wonder: Who's Joe Arridy? The details only someone who had been there would know. 11 Days after the murder, Sheriff George Carroll decided to question a young man who was wandering around the railyards. I'm upset, But I also want to have something good come out of this. The main focus for Joe Arridy’s defense was that he was not legally sane and therefore he was “incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong and therefore, would be unable to perform any action with criminal intent.”. So despite the fact that three psychiatrists testified at Arridy’s trial and declared him mentally handicapped with an IQ of 46, Arridy was found guilty and was sentenced to death. Henry took a job with a major steel mill in Pueblo that he learned was hiring workers. At first he claimed a club was used in the murder. Carroll said that Arridy confessed to him. He also failed to understand the concept of death. They knew their son was different early in his life. Both 15-year-old Dorothy and her 12-year-old sister Barbara Drain were bludgeoned by an intruder with what was believed to be a hatchet. The attorney, Gail Ireland who petitioned the Colorado Supreme Court on Arridy’s behalf, had written during the case “Believe me if he is gassed it will take a long time for the state of Colorado to live down the disgrace.”. Joe Arridy was born in 1915 in Pueblo, Colorado, to Henry and Mary Arridy, recent immigrants from Syria, who were seeking work.
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