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Evidence Items

Anonymous Threatening Letter

  • View anonymous threatening letter sent to the newspaper.

Letters from Will Mathis

These notes were written shortly before Mathis expected to be executed.
  • View letter to Mathis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mathis
  • View letter to Mathis' child, Baxter Clelon Mathis
  • View letter to Mathis' wife, Cordie Mathis

Purported Letters from Will Mathis

These letters were used to convict Mathis, even though the handwriting in the notes did not match Mathis'

  • View letter to Mathis' wife, outlining escape plans.
  • View Letter to Shell Vines, encouraging him to give false testimony.

Letters from Whit Owens

Shortly before his execution, these letters and a quantity of poison were found in Mathis' cell.

  • View letter encouraging Mathis to kill Orlando Lester and then commit suicide.

Court Documents

 

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