By John Grisham In October 2024, I published “Framed,” a collection of 10 outrageous stories of wrongful convictions. Jim McCloskey, my co-writer, and I decided to include one case that is not yet over, a case in which thewrongfully accused are still in prison and fighting to get out. We chose the story, called “Unknown Male Number One,” about the corrupt convictions and imprisonment of Samuel Grasty, Derrick Chappell and Morton Johnson.

The state’s conviction review unit concluded that Brian Pippitt, 63, was not involved in the 1998 murder of an 84-year-old woman, for which he was serving a life sentence.