? Stanley and Taressa Joan McGrew

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Husband ? Stanley

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Wife Taressa Joan McGrew

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           Born: 5 Jul 1960 - USA
       Baptized: 
           Died: 16 Sep 1984 - Warner Robins, Houston County, GA
         Buried:  - Roselawn Memorial Park, Terre Haute, Vigo County, IN
Find A Grave ID: 41689866

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         Father: George M. McGrew Sr {FGID: 190850427}
         Mother: Barbara J. (Barb) Kelly {FGID: 167316252}

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General Notes: Husband - ? Stanley

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190850427/george-m_-mcgrew

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General Notes: Wife - Taressa Joan McGrew

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190850427/george-m_-mcgrew
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41689866/taressa-joan-stanley

BIRTH 5 Jul 1960
USA
DEATH 16 Sep 1984 (aged 24)
USA
BURIAL
Roselawn Memorial Park
Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA
PLOT Companion
MEMORIAL ID 41689866

Maintained by: Luke Miller
Originally Created by: Mark W. Neice
Added: 7 Sep 2009
Find A Grave Memorial 41689866

memorial page for Taressa Joan McGrew Stanley (5 Jul 1960–16 Sep 1984), Find A Grave Memorial no. 41689866, citing Roselawn Memorial Park, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Luke Miller (contributor 47866280) .

http://www.timelinesdb.com/listevents.php?subjid=759&title=Robbery&fromrec=60
"In Georgia Taressa Stanley, a clerk at a Quickie convenience store in Warner Robbins, was killed during a robbery. Police soon arrested Timothy R. Johnson (22) and reportedly frightened him into pleading guilty. Georgia’s Supreme Court overturned Johnson’s conviction in 2006 and he was freed in 2013 after a new jury found him not guilty on all charges."

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/137594417/
"ATLANTA - A Georgia man says he was frightened into pleading guilty to a murder he did not commit after police dangled him off a bridge three decades ago, brought charges against his parents and threatened him with the death penalty. Timothy Johnson was 22 in September 1984 when police arrested him and charged him in the killing of a Warner Robins, Georgia, convenience store clerk shot during a robbery. He pleaded guilty in December of that year, even though he says he did not commit the crime. He was sentenced to life in prison. In 2006, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned Johnson’s conviction, saying there was nothing to indicate he understood his right to not incriminate himself and his right to confront wit-nesses. At a new trial seven years later, a jury found Johnson not guilty of all charges. Johnson, now 53, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday alleging Warner Robins police and Houston County sheriff’s deputies arrested him without probable cause and participated in malicious prosecution against him. During his 29 years at Georgia State Prison and in the Houston County Jail, he was placed in a cramped, windowless cell in solitary confinement for at least part of the time and was given little access to exercise or interaction with other people, the lawsuit says. At the state prison, he suffered beatings once or twice a week by a group of guards known as the “goon squad,” the lawsuit says. “It was like being in a bad dream, except you know you’re not dreaming,” Johnson said. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gwendolyn Hogan said she could not comment on the alleged conduct. Houston County Sheriff Cullen Talton, whose office oversees the county jail, said he had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment. The lawsuit makes claims including cruel and unusual punishment, due process violations and malicious prosecution. It asks for a jury trial and seeks compensatory and punitive damages. Warner Robins is about 100 miles south of Atlanta had home to Robins Air Force Base. Johnson says he was awakened at 3:30am one day in September 1984 by officers banging on his door. They arrested him on murder and armed robbery charges in the killing of Taressa Stanley several hours earlier. Johnson had been at a friend’s house at the time of Stanley’s killing, along with six or seven other people, he said. He was later told that an initial suspect, a high school classmate he had not seen in several years, had identified him as the shooter. He was put in solitary confinement in the Houston County Jail and later forced out of his cell by officers, who took him to a bridge and dangled him over the edge, the lawsuit says. “At some point, I just got so scared that I thought maybe I was having a heart attack or something,” he said. His court-appointed attorney did not investigate his innocence and just relayed what prosecutors said. His parents were charged with hindering the apprehension of a criminal even though he did not live with them and had not seen them in several days, Johnson said. Fearing for his life and for his loved ones, Johnson pleaded guilty in exchange for prosecutors dropping the possibility of the death penalty, the lawsuit says. Once Johnson entered his plea, the charges against his family members were dropped. Now Johnson revels in spending time with his parents, grateful they are still alive. He also marvels at how different everything is and admits to struggling sometimes with his cellphone. “I’m feeling blessed to be out here,” he said. Man acquitted after 29 years in prison files civil rights lawsuit Police threatened him, his parents if he didn’t confess, he says

KATE BRUMBACK ASSOCIATED PRESS
GRANT BLANKENSHIP/ THE MACON TELEGRAPH, VIA AP Timothy Johnson embraces a family member on Dec.5, 2013, after he was exonerated in a 1984 killing in Georgia."

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Notes: Marriage

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190850427/george-m_-mcgrew

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