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Listen to superhuman on the iHeart Radio app. Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last time on earwitness. We knew the reward was offered because it was all over the papers, but we didn't know who got it, or if I let Alison got it.
She was a very credible witness. We believed her. Obviously, we believed her because we convicted him. And it was on her testimony. When I showed up at her house, she said, I didn't get a reward.
I was like, oh, well, that's funny. I was like, we have some paper here that says you got a reward. We got an email that said we found these documents. They'd been misfiled, and here they are. Does that sound strange to you, or do you have any idea
how that could have happened? The AG's office, did they say they got misfiled? And I guess it got misfiled. Even an error, I guess, I don't know.
“Do you think that your impression of her would have been different?”
Had you known she was being paid $5,000. I definitely believe we would have, as a jury, talked about that. Like, how credible is this testimony? She's being paid for it. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Like, I had never been a trouble a day in my life, ever before the end.
I'm going to jail. And I've never been a jail of that in my life, ever, ever, never had any trouble, anything. I'm sitting on the couch in a tiny one-bed room apartment and Birmingham.
It's warm outside. The door is open to let in a breeze. I'm talking with Marika Wilson, who's telling me in my producer Mara about a defining experience of her life, being charged with attempted murder in 1997 when she was 20 years old.
A crime she did not commit.
“The crime happened late at night when one woman and two men”
tried to rob a man in Birmingham. They broke into his house and shot him. He almost died. Marika was accused of being the woman who participated in the crime, but she says she wasn't there.
It was someone else. I wouldn't take no plea, though. They opened me 20 to a year's. Of my life, for something that I didn't even do, and I said no, I felt to the bitter end.
A jury found Marika not guilty, but the ordeal left lifelong scars. It has still just bothered me all these years about where I went through, you know, and I'm saying, every time I apply for a job, even though I was a query,
I couldn't get a job, a decent job to take care of my kids. I lost my place, I didn't have a shirt to put on my bed. Then I lost custody of my kids behind him. I was up against our type of art in a situation, something that I didn't even do.
But she, she did that woman to take it up there and say she's seen me.
The woman, Marika is referring to,
is the witness who testified against her.
A neighbor of the victim, who said she'd seen the crime unfold from her living room window at 2 AM. She told the jury, she saw Marika and two other people break down the victim's door and assault him. The woman's name, Violet Ellison.
Do you remember Violet Ellison?
“I remember her getting up there saying she's seen me through the window.”
She was wrong. She was wrong. Yes, ma'am. She, it was me. They just credit her at my trial. They made her look horrible. I have remember her.
Like she just got up there and pointing at me.
Marika's attorneys showed the jury that Violet Ellison's view from her living room window was blocked by a tree. There was no possible way she could have seen Marika or anyone else on her neighbor's porch. So she was a big part of the case against you.
And she lied under oath. Literally literally lied under oath. Violet Ellison testified against Marika
“less than four months after she served as the star witness”
against Taforist Johnson. Their trials happened in the same year. In the same courthouse, prosecuted by the same DA's office. In both cases, Violet Ellison knew the victim, spoke to detectives, and became a lead witness.
Marika and I find ourselves in Marika Wilson's living room. A few weeks after, I made a lucky discovery and Alabama's database of online court records. One afternoon, I'm sitting in my office, poking around in the database.
It's a clunky website with all these different drop-down menus. I'm running searches on Violet Ellison's name. Trying her name in a bunch of different ways, getting the same results. When all of a sudden, I hit enter and loop a new list pops up.
Criminal cases all naming Violet Ellison as a state's witness. So in addition to Taforist's case, I discover that Violet Ellison has been a witness for the state in four other criminal cases.
Marika Wilson was the first person that we tracked down
who Violet Ellison had testified against. When I first called Marika, I told her about the four other cases Violet was involved in as a witness. Right, we know of five different criminal cases. Is these both convicted because of her?
Several of them, yeah. Wow, wow, wow, oh man, you don't need to help them people. Because she's not credible. I said that to my husband back then, woman has said, babe, he said his woman don't been involved in several cases.
Like, is she only payroll or something? I just sound like some crooked going on with me, because how does she keep popping up in all these serious cases and being a witness is like, it's a bit of sound right. I'm sorry, it doesn't.
Wow, an important deal for us. Because it is lady. Oh, wow. Is someone going on with that, yeah? In order to believe and to Forrest Johnson's conviction,
“you have to believe that Violet Ellison was truthful”
when she said that she overheard to Forrest talk about killing deputy Hardy, that she wasn't after the reward money because she didn't know about it. You have to believe that Violet Ellison is credible. So we need to know everything we can about Violet Ellison,
because without her, without her credibility, there is no case against To Forrest Johnson. [Music]
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And January of 2022, Mara and I start trying to track down the other people while it elicent testified against. We spend a lot of time in my car, full days, sometimes. I pack mom snacks, healthy stuff, like hummus, and baby carrots, raw almonds. Maybe a diet doctor pepper on a hard day.
Marica was the first person we were able to find. The second case that listed Violet Ellison as a witness was a second degree assault
between two men who got in a fight. The case ended in a plea deal, so she never actually testified.
We weren't able to figure out exactly why she was listed as a witness. We tried very hard to talk to the man charged in the case, but never could reach him. And then there was the third case. It involved a local pastor named Bishop James Johnson, who was accused of inappropriately touching and kissing three teenage girls at his church run school in 1993. Violet Ellison was a school employee who testified about the alleged
abuse, but Bishop Johnson maintained he was falsely accused and that Violet Ellison was lying. The charges against him were eventually dropped by the state.
We talked to Bishop Johnson, who's now in his late 80s at his house and a sub...
and he told us Violet Ellison made up the accusations in an effort to get rid of him
“because she wanted to run the school. We talked to one other school employee who corroborated”
what Bishop Johnson told us that Violet Ellison made up the allegations. I tried to find some of the alleged victims in this case, but I wasn't able to track them down. Bishop Johnson said, "He's forgiven Violet Ellison." That's all we're thinking of. I have nothing to my heart against her, I have a gave her even matter of toll and free.
But he said, "She is not a trustworthy person."
I don't trust her. She's not a personal trust. George Holloway is the next person on our list of people that Violet Ellison testified against. What we know from court records is this. Between 2008 and 2016, George Holloway was charged in several domestic violence incidents involving his girlfriend, but unlike Marika Wilson and Bishop James Johnson, George Holloway pleaded guilty to his
charges which included violating a protective order twice. He was sentenced to three years in prison. The documents don't show why Violet Ellison was a witness against George Holloway. So, Mara and I get in the car and drive around for hours, knocking on doors with the list of possible home addresses with no luck. Finally, we pull up to the last address on our list around sunset, a small brick house in
Bessomirth. We're here. You know, it's always a gamble. Let's just give it a whirl.
At the same time, a truck stops at the top of the house's driveway. Can you, are we blocking you? An out-hops-a-man wearing grass-stained workclothes and a neon green shirt.
“Are you going to this house? We're looking for a Mr. George Holloway. Is that you?”
That's okay. George, I'm sorry to show up here like this. We are journalists and we are working on a story about a case and the lead. I launch into a spiel about what we're up to and George Holloway listens quietly as we stand next to his mailbox. And so, we're trying to get information on her. Her name's Violet Ellison. Do you know her? Do you have an opinion about her or have any
information that you could give us about her? I know she's very vindicted. She's like to be involved in a lot of stuff that doesn't involve her. She's very, she's a very messy lady. Very messy. [Music] George Holloway invites us into his living room to talk more about his relationship with Violet Ellison.
She's not a reliable person that you would trust, that you will put your faith in,
“and I will tell anybody, whatever you have to say, do not say it in front of her because it's”
going to get turned totally backwards. It's not going to be sad the way that you said. My opinion, stay away from that woman because she's trouble. He tells us that he met Violet Ellison through his ex-girlfriend. It gets a little complicated, but it's like this. George Holloway used to date a woman will call Sharon. Before she was with George, Sharon dated Violet Ellison's son,
Reginald Smith, who's known as Red. George tells us that when Sharon broke up with Red, she remained friends with Violet Ellison. But he tells us Violet Ellison wanted Sharon and her son
Red to get back together, and she thought George was in the way.
Sharon had a volatile relationship, and because of that, Sharon had a protective order against him.
“He says that one night, he and Sharon had an argument in person,”
violating the protective order. George says he left after the argument in Sharon called police, but Violet Ellison later testified that she heard and saw the whole thing firsthand. She had said that, you know, she was there. She witnessed it. But she was not there. She showed up after everything had happened and under police vise was there on the scene.
George tells us he decided to plead guilty to breaking Sharon's protective order to wash his hands
of the whole situation. He says he hasn't seen Sharon, Violet Ellison or her son Red in years. George admits to physical fights with Sharon, but it seems like his descriptions of these fights minimize the violence. We know there is another side to the story, but Sharon doesn't respond to our interview requests. I tell George about Violet Ellison's involvement into forced Johnson's conviction
“and the $5,000 reward she was paid in secret. She had do anything possible that she can”
if money is involved, even go to the extent to lie. But he says Violet Ellison has an even stronger motivation than money. Her son Red. She would do anything possible, anything and go to any extent to keep her son out of trouble. Multiple sources tell me that Red is a longtime drug user and court records show that he's been in and out of jail. George says that Violet Ellison enabled her son. She would cover up for him
whether he was right or whether he was wrong. She knew he was doing things out there in the street, but if the police come, she would lie and say he's not there. She would give policies of informations leading to drug buses. People that done dead robberies and favor for them to drop charges against Reginald get the charges downgraded. You know, the keep him from going to jail. I leave the interview with George Holloway Wondering. Could Red's legal issues have motivated Violet
“Ellison to get involved with police? Was she after leniency for her son?”
A search of public court records shows that Red has a lengthy list of misdemeanor and felony convictions on his record, going back to 1980. But I checked with the Alabama Department of Corrections and they have no record of him ever serving time and prison. This tracks with what one of Violet Ellison's neighbors told me that Red is often in trouble, but he's like Teflon, nothing sticks. For example in 1997, Red was charged with robbery and theft when he stole five watches from a
department store. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. But then the judge amended Red's sentence and granted him probation instead of prison time. But there's no information about why his sentence was downgraded and this happened less than a month before the start of
to forest's second trial. That timing gets my attention. I wonder if it's possible that Violet
Ellison testified into forest's case and exchanged for preferential treatment for her son. But on further examination, that seems like a long shot. The charges against Red in 1997 were in Bessomer, not Jefferson County, where to forest was tried with different prosecutors and judges. But I do know that Violet Ellison was involved in her son's criminal defense. In a 2007 burglary case, records show that Red's attorney met with the defendant and his mother
For three hours in two separate meetings.
Is Red getting preferential treatment because his mother has been a witness for the state and
multiple cases? I find no documentation to support this. But then again, our deals like that ever spelled out in court records. Another podcast from some SNL, late night comedy guide, not quite on humor me with Robert Michael and friends, me and hilarious guests from Jim Gaffigan to Bob Oden Court to David Letterman help make you funnier this week. My guests SNL's Mikey Day and Headwriters Streeter side del
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the practicality and corporate business sense of the Sith rule of two. Listen to stuff to blow your mind on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. While looking through reds files, I noticed an especially violent assault and battery from 1994. He was sentenced to supervised probation. I was able to dig up a report of the incident in which police say red spits on a woman grabs her by the neck and hair and pulls her
around a room. A child is listed as a witness. The victim's name is Anita Davis and her most likely addresses are all in central Georgia. So Mara and I get back in the car and make the four-hour drive to try to find her. Hi. We're looking for Anita Davis. Oh, she passed away. Oh, I'm so sorry. Are you her daughter? My name is Beth. This is Mara. We are writers and we're working on a story about a wrongful combustion and reaching out to people that may know
that this brand witness. Her name is Violet Ellison. Oh, I know. Oh, okay. So Violet Ellison is your grandmother. Okay. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves talking to Violet Ellison's granddaughter. Tais Davis is in her 50s but doesn't look a day over 40. When I mentioned her grandmother, Violet Ellison, Tais comes out from behind the screen door. She keeps her earbuds in while we
“stand on the porch and talk. Well, kind of grandmother was she was she involved in your life?”
No. No. She told my dear. Your keys ain't gonna never melt in it. But then we're the kids.
This is this is successful. And now she's trying to come back around. Yeah. So there's not like warm feelings. Yeah. So far, most of the people I've contacted about Violet Ellison had good reason to say negative things about her. Those were people who she testified against.
This feels different.
Ellison through family. Tais tells us she's retired from the Air Force. She moved to Georgia with
“her mom and needed Davis and her two brothers when they were kids. Tais says it was to get away”
from the chaos surrounding her father's side of the family. We asked her about red. What's the deal with red, her son? Uh, so that's my dad. Okay. I really don't have any of them because he's been on drugs since I was eight or nine. Okay. He's staying with her. So, you know, you had a parent's where,
you know, you know, you know, you child know what stuff, but you uphold it. First is then you know,
you wrong. Yeah. She upholds everything. That's exactly. Tais corroborates the picture already painted by George Holloway and a neighbor of Violet Ellison telling us that she readily involves herself and other people's criminal issues, but does whatever she can to protect her son, red, when he gets into trouble. You don't need neighbor who watch what hurt, but she only, and she only noticed what she wanted to notice because if a son was breaking this in by the house,
“Mr. She didn't see that, but anything else she was seeing. So, yeah, that's how it's done.”
We explained why we're interested in Violet Ellison and her son. And Tais tells us she had recently
heard about her grandmother's involvement in to forest Johnson's case. So, I wasn't surprised
when I heard it because if it involved money, I wouldn't be surprised. Well, and it did. I mean, she was paid $5,000. Yeah. So, I wouldn't be surprised. Like when I heard the story, I was like, yeah, I'm not surprised at all. She's money honking. So, that that's the issue. Well, like I said, we'll say anything to get money. Why is she like that? Any idea? No, even like I said growing up, I had nothing to do with you. Like for instance, I'm going to give you an example.
Tais tells us that Violet Ellison was distant when she was a child. But then, right after Tais joined the Air Force, she got a call from her grandmother. Haven't done nothing for me. Her very child haven't done nothing for me. I joined the military. She said, hey, I need your social care and I'm sorry. I'm going to get insurance, probably it's only you. Just in case, you know, something happens to you when you can bear
you. I'm fine with the military. I'm recovered. And that's nothing go to my mom. So,
why do you need my social? But you may never decide to do that before. So, stuff like that.
But I'm not surprised with the money thing. And I hate that this man. It could be innocent and for $5,000. He's on different $5,000. But she testified under oath that she did not know about the reward. She didn't know that any money was involved. She's exactly. My brother said, she ain't testified again. The list is money involved.
All of a sudden, we realize that ties has ear buds in because she's on the phone with someone. It's her brother, Tony.
“Oh, okay. Is he here? Yeah. Do you think he would talk to us?”
Would it be possible for us to come see him too? You thought you'd find what it's on? It's probably not. Yeah. No, okay. You would just have to do this. Violet Ellison's grandson, Tony, lives about 10 minutes away from his sister ties. We get to his house and the front yard is filled with cars and various states of repair. He's waiting for us on the porch. Hello. Hi. How are you? Are you Tony?
After he finishes extracting an old bird's nest from the rafters, Tony talks to us for 40 minutes. I could tell you one thing about my grandma. She is a that's a true scam artist. That's a true idea to see. I know that's my grandma, but that's a true scam artist. In a way she can get a doll telling she ain't that tight. It's going to help somebody just to help them. It got to have money, it got to have money involved. Wow.
That's just how they got to have. They got money involved. She ain't with it. She's gonna have it. Tony says his grandmother tried to scam him out of $500 by claiming that he owed her for a loan. Mara tells Tony about how the state presented Violet Ellison to force Johnson's trial, and that she says she didn't know about the reward when she testified. He doesn't believe that. Getting him being shut at like she concerned about stuff, but really she needs a sign. She's just
Trying to get him to be.
her to leave, but I'll see lots of money. She's like my dad and lots of money. She'll lie about
“anything and get away with anything. So he goes on to describe the relationship Violet Ellison has”
with her son Red, who is also Tony's father. They like he's bunning Clyde. She'll arrive on the whole time. She can see with her home as with his man D and she'll and she'll be like, "No, I'll see you, I'll see you." Tony then tells us the story about the assault and battery case that led us here, filling in details that are missing from the court files. He says when he was little, Red was on drugs and would hit Tony's mom. One night, Tony wanted to protect her,
stabbed Red. That one I was young, a child. I stabbed him. Wow. I really did. I stabbed him. I stabbed him in his cab most of his stuff. He was hollowed and he knew who the first person
“that pulled up. He's the first person pulled up and he did what they did and they told the police”
alive. They tried to put him like somebody he got in the fight with somebody and all this stuff.
But they wait. So Violet lied to the police. He always lied for the police to try to get him out of
the truck. But he tried to put it like, "I don't get in the truck for stabbing. I didn't kill." "I don't look like a child. I'll do it to the child. I'll just protect my mom and be up." According to Tony, even when he was little, he saw Violet Ellison lie to police to protect her son, Red. But Red was arrested for this incident and sentenced to 60 days probation. And it was after this, Tais and Tony's mother Anita decided to move the family to Georgia.
Like his sister Tais, Tony was also troubled to recently hear about his grandmother's involvement
and to forest Johnson's conviction and death sentence. "I hate her man going through that. I really did. It didn't last to the point. It's a chance he could move his life or fire at that last. I'm not typically comfortable reporting negative opinions about a private citizen. But Violet Ellison's word is the case against Tifforist Johnson. In order to figure out how an innocent person ended up on death row, there was no way around investigating the star
witness and whether or not she's credible. I had that conversation with Violet Ellison on her front porch. A year before, I talked with Tais and Tony. But after hearing from her grandchildren, I went back and knocked on Violet Ellison's door again. Multiple times. Hi, we're looking for Ms. Violet Ellison. I wanted to learn more about her relationship with her son Red and her involvement in other cases. Each time I knocked, the woman inside claimed
Violet Ellison wasn't at home. I even left a note in her mailbox along with my business card.
“But Violet Ellison never responded. Ms. Ellison is that you?”
I wasn't able to find documented proof of all of the allegations that sources made against Violet Ellison. For example, there's no paper trail that shows she lied to protect her son Red. But there's also no ironclad proof that Violet Ellison heard Tifforist Johnson talk about killing Deputy Hardy in 1995. The state presented her testimony with no verification of what she claimed, no recording of the calls she eaves dropped on. Nothing outside her word and the notes
she turned over to police that connected to Forest Johnson to a murder he maintains to this day that he did not commit. Prosecutors presented Violet Ellison as a concerned mother troubled by her conscience and she was adamant that she didn't know about the reward when she testified. But through my reporting, consistent negative descriptions kept coming up about her,
Even from her own grandchildren.
a peace breaker. Almost every person we talked to said Violet Ellison should not be trusted.
“We spoke to over a dozen different people about Violet Ellison. The consistent portrait that he”
merged from these conversations is diametrically opposed to the characterization presented by prosecutors at trial and what judges still believe as to Forest tries to undo his conviction. I also learned that Violet Ellison was in a precarious financial position, burdened by medical debt. She lives in a community plagued by violence and poverty. Her son suffers from addiction. She's
estranged from some of her immediate family. She seems to seize opportunities where she can.
One of those was created by the state when they offered money for information about a police officer's murder. 15 years before I began looking into Violet Ellison, there was someone else who had questions about her credibility. Jeff Wallace, the prosecutor who stood in front of a jury and threw deputy hearty's hat onto the courtroom floor. Jeff Wallace reached out to tie Alper and the rest of to Forest's legal team to share what was on his mind. And today, he says that to Forest Johnson
“deserves a new trial. 20 years later, he's saying I think it should be undone. I mean,”
that to me takes courage that most lawyers don't have. That's next time.
Ear Witness is a production of lava for good podcasts in association with signal company number one. Executive producers are Jason Flam, Jeff Kimpler, Kevin Wardas, and me, Beth Schelburn. The investigative reporting for this series was done by me and Mara McNamera. Producers are Mara McNamera, Hannah Beal, and Jackie Pauli. Caracorn Haber is our senior producer. Brit Spangler is our sound designer.
Additional story editing from Marie Sutton. Fact check help from Katherine Newhand. And special thanks to to Forest Johnson's legal defense team. You can follow the show on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter at lava for good. To see behind the scenes content from our investigation, visit lavaforgood.com/earwitness. Not quite on humor me with Robert's Michael and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Oden
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