![]() ![]() Schrappen wrote back to Johnson, and they did not stop exchanging letters for the rest of the unjust punishment which he would ultimately serve. Police and prosecutors said Johnson gunned Boyd down during a dispute over drug money, ignoring his pleas of innocence and insistence that he was with his girlfriend miles away when the killing occurred. ![]() Johnson had been convicted of murder for the October 1994 killing of Marcus Boyd, who was shot dead on his front porch by two masked men. In an interview which also served as an update for what Johnson has been doing since his release from prison drew national news headlines, Schrappen recounted how it was about 25 years ago that a deacon at her St Louis-area church handed her a letter from a local man who was imprisoned and had written to the local diocese in hopes of getting a reply from a congregant. “Because when you have people who believe in you and they won’t give up on you, then it makes it harder for you to give up on yourself.” “Especially when somebody is innocent, you want someone to believe in you,” Johnson told CBS. CBS News late last week chronicled the emotional meeting at Schrappen’s house, with Johnson explaining how thankful he was for the confidence his correspondent’s letters imbued in him when he was wrongfully locked up for so long. ![]()
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