title: A Promise of Justice: The Eighteen-Year Fight to Save Four Innocent Men
author:  David Protess 
description: In 1978, a young white couple was abducted at gunpoint from a 24-hour filling station in Homewood, Illinois, and taken to a predominantly black neighborhood outside of Chicago. They were forced into an abandoned, decayed townhouse where the woman was raped repeatedly; shortly thereafter, both were dead from multiple gunshot wounds. The investigation seemed open-and-shut. An eyewitness described two of the suspects running from the townhouse, one with a gun in his hand. Another witness claimed to hear two of the suspects bragging about the murders. Most damning of all, the girlfriend of one of the suspects claimed she was present in the townhouse; later, she claimed, she witnessed the actual murders. Four men--Dennis Williams, Verneal Jimerson, Willie Rainge, and Kenny Adams--were ultimately convicted, and two of them sentenced to death.
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  # Dark Redemption
  
  
  ### The David Rivers Series, Book 3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Jason Kasper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [The David Rivers
  Series](part0004.html#3Q280-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [JUDGMENT](part0005.html#4OIQ0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0006.html#5N3C0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [REDEEMER](part0007.html#6LJU0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0008.html#7K4G0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0009.html#8IL20-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [ESCAPE](part0010.html#9H5K0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0011.html#AFM60-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0012.html#BE6O0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0013.html#CCNA0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [MIDNIGHT](part0014.html#DB7S0-56de319171d74946baae05d3fe108e68)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 