Wally Peranski was a janitor at James Marshall High School in 1998. At the time, he'd permitted Jerry Wood, the captain of the school baseball team to take girls into his van, one of which was Carrie Swett, a girl who'd had a promiscuous reputation and who was later found dead in the nearby woods. Ultimately, Wally was cleared when Carrie's actual killers Tina Quinn, Phil DiPreta, Laurie Wu, and Manny Kim confessed to the crime.