![Her claims in the 1949 Lake County incident propelled a seminal criminal case that helped change the course of race relations and social justice in Central Florida and the U.S. But it took many years for her perfidy to become widely understood. Her claims in the 1949 Lake County incident propelled a seminal criminal case that helped change the course of race relations and social justice in Central Florida and the U.S. But it took many years for her perfidy to become widely understood.](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Groveland-Four-Pardoned-011119-TS-122.jpg?w=132)
Norma Padgett, who falsely accused the Groveland Four of rape, dies at 92
Her claims in the 1949 Lake County incident propelled a seminal criminal case that helped change the course of race relations and social justice in Central Florida and the U.S....