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Episode 258: On the morning of February 20, 1989, stay-at-home mother of two\xa0Janice Faye Johnson\xa0was found unconscious, gravely injured and barely clinging to life at the foot of a flight of basement stairs in the\xa0Shelburne, Nova Scotia\xa0home she shared with her family,\xa0Clayton Norman Johnson\xa0and daughters Darla and Dawn. Even though she was still alive when she was found by a neighbour, who called for an ambulance immediately, Janice died in the hospital just after noon that day.\nMore than three years after her death, police arrested Janice\u2019s husband, Clayton, a high school industrial arts teacher, and charged him with first-degree murder. Consistently maintaining his innocence throughout subsequent proceedings, on May 4, 1993, Clayton was found guilty of the first-degree murder of his wife. He was later sentenced to life in prison \u2014 his appeals, citing spurious forensic evidence, were rejected. He spent the next five years in prison.\nSources:\nClayton Johnson - Innocence Canada\nCrown Halts Clayton Johnson Murder Prosecution - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada\nClayton Johnson Settlement - Government of Nova Scotia, Canada\nClayton Johnson: Innocent man convicted by so-called experts\nClayton Johnson walks as Crown balks at new trial | CBC News\nShelburne man, wrongly convicted of wife\u2019s murder, dies | CBC News\n1998 NSCA 14 (CanLII) | R. v. Johnson | CanLII\n1994 NSCA 79 (CanLII) | R. v. Johnson | CanLII\nClayton Johnson - Wrongful Conviction - Pyzer Criminal Lawyers\nClayton Johnson: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam\nClayton Johnson wrongful murder conviction: Tide of Suspicion (1998) - The Fifth Estate \u2014 YouTube\nWrongly convicted man cleared in wife\u2019s death - The Globe and Mail\nAccident or Murder? | Forensic Files Wiki | Fandom\n\u201cForensic Files\u201d Accident or Murder? (TV Episode 1999) - Reference View - IMDb\nObituary | Clayton Norman Johnson of Barrington, Nova Scotia | H.M. Huskilson\u2019s Funeral Home\nScribd | Justice Miscarried: Inside Wrongful Convictions in Canada\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices