2024年9月30日 · The man largely responsible for putting him there is Brian Wharton, the former police detective who led the investigation and subsequent arrest of Roberson. Wharton, now an ordained minister in...

2024年7月30日 · That’s the burden the Rev. Brian Wharton has been carrying for more than two decades. He played a crucial role in the prosecution of Robert Roberson, who was found guilty in 2003 of killing his...

2024年8月1日 · Reverend Brian Wharton played a vital role in the prosecution of Robert Roberson, who was convicted for the murder of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, in 2003. He was given the death penalty and...

2024年5月23日 · Brian Wharton is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. When he retired from the Palestine Police Department to study at Asbury Theological Seminary in 2006, he was the assistant chief...

In a May 23, 2024 op-ed pub­lished in The Dallas Morning News, Brian Wharton, the retired super­vis­ing detec­tive in Robert Roberson’s case, urged Anderson County District Attorney Allyson Mitchell to reex­am­ine the case and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reex­am­ine a pend­ing motion on Mr. Roberson’s inno­cence claims ...

2024年7月30日 · “Good morning, Robert.” “Good morning to you, Brian. Brian or Mr. Wharton?” “Brian’s fine.” “OK.” “Let me just say, I am so sorry that you’re here and so sorry that you are ...

2025年1月17日 · Brian Wharton is now the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Onalaska. Two decades ago, when he was a detective, he worked a case that sent a man to death row. He thinks he got it...

2024年10月18日 · Brian Wharton, the lead detective who investigated the death of Roberson's daughter in east Texas city of Palestine, helped convict him. Wharton now advocates vocally for the courts to review...

2024年10月14日 · Brian Wharton joins The Lead. 04:41 - Source: CNN. Latest Videos 17 videos. Video Ad Feedback. Former detective asks Texas officials to spare life of death row inmate whose arrest he ordered in ...

2024年7月31日 · Brian Wharton, who was the lead detec­tive in Palestine, Texas at the time of Robert Roberson’s con­vic­tion for the death of his two-year-old daugh­ter Nikki, now believes Mr. Roberson is inno­cent and sup­ports abo­li­tion of the death penal­ty. Mr.