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Death of a ballplayer: Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers -- then...

Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers -- then he was wrongly convicted of murder and spent the next 27 years of his life in maximum security prison. Now he's free, and looking for his mission.

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Hasnain says:

So why, then? Why did they go after Billy Dillon? Their own selfishness? Just to make themselves look good and keep their jobs?

"Not even that," Dillon says. "It was society's selfishness. They wanted a killer. They wanted the people they hired to do anything to get him."

Posted on 2013-08-08T16:31:06+0000