Nick Yarris

He appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience on September 11th, 2018, talking at length about his experiences.

Yarris is the subject of the documentary The Fear of 13 released in 2015. He is the author of the autobiography Seven Days to Live My Life (2008),. He has also published books called The Kindness Approach(2017), My Journey Through her Eyes (2017) and Monsters and Madmen (2018). He has an upcoming film which is the follow-up to The Fear of 13, as revealed on the True Geordie podcast.

He sued the Delaware County District Attorney's Office for malicious prosecution and the case eventually settled for $3 million in 2008.

In 1981, Yarris was charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Craig, a woman he had never met in his life. At the time, Yarris was a 20-year-old drug addict who had been thrown out on the streets by his family. The original charges, including the attempted murder of a police officer, were dismissed when the policeman involved told the jury he had been punched by Yarris, but then failed to corroborate his version through photographic evidence. In a second trial, however, Yarris was found guilty of murdering Craig. In 1982 Yarris, 21 at the time, was sentenced to death and sent to death row. In 2003, DNA evidence proved that he had not committed the crime, and in 2004 he was released.

Nicholas James Yarris (born 1961) is an American writer and professional speaker who spent 22 years on death row after being wrongfully convicted of murder.