The Exonerated - The Exonerated

The Exonerated

• Kerry Max Cook: Convicted of murdering a neighbor in Texas in 1977; exonerated in 1997.
• Gary Gauger: Convicted of murdering his mother and father in Illinois in 1993; exonerated in 1996.
• Robert Earl Hayes: Black Florida racetrack worker convicted of murdering a white woman in 1990; exonerated in 1997. In 2004, the real Robert Hayes pled guilty to manslaughter and arson in a 1987 rape and murder in New York. He is now serving 15 to 45 years. He is also the prime suspect in rapes in Delaware and New Jersey.
• Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs: Convicted, along with common law husband, Jesse Tafero, and his friend, Walter Rhodes, of murdering Philip Black, a Florida state trooper and Donald Irwin, a visiting Canadian constable in 1976; Jacobs was not exonerated. Her death sentence was overturned in 1981, and she was sentenced to life with a 25 year minimum mandatory sentence. In 1992 her case was reversed on appeal, and she pled to second degree murder, and was released on time served. Tafero was executed in 1990.
• David Keaton: Convicted of murdering a Florida police officer in 1971; exonerated in 1973.
• Delbert Tibbs: Black Florida man convicted of murdering a white man and raping his girlfriend in 1974; exonerated in 1976. He was eventually freed in 1979 after serving time for an unrelated charge.

Aidan Quinn reprised his role as Kerry Max Cook in The Exonerated's staging at the Dublin Theatre Festival in Dublin, Ireland in October, 2006 as well as the stage version in New York City. David Soul took over the role of Gary Gaugher for several of the Dublin performances.