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In 1982, 19-year-old Rebecca Lynn Williams, mother of three, was raped and murdered in Culpeper, Virginia.In 1983 in neighboring Fauquier County, Virginia, Earl Washington Jr., a black man with a major intellectual disability, [2] was arrested for and admitted to breaking into the home of and wounding a neighbor during a drunken dispute.
Thomas Haynesworth (born March 21, 1965) is a resident of Richmond, Virginia, who served 27 years in state prison as a result of four wrongful convictions for crimes for which he was exonerated in 2011. Haynesworth was arrested in Richmond at the age of 18 in 1984 after a woman identified him as her attacker.
Certain details, including post-conviction relief, if applicable, are included in footnotes. For example, several officials obtained post-conviction relief after the Supreme Court's decisions narrowing the mail fraud statute in McNally v. United States (1987) and Skilling v. United States (2010) and narrowing the Hobbs Act in McCormick v.
They served their sentences but their convictions were set aside in 2002 when DNA evidence cleared them and another man confessed to the crime. [ 23 ] John Bunn was one of 15 individuals whose convictions were overturned during 2013–2019 after long prison terms, in Brooklyn homicide cases involving the retired New York City Police Department ...
He died in prison on December 2, 1999, from an asthma attack. Another man, Jerry Wayne Johnson, confessed to the rape in 2007. DNA evidence later confirmed that the rape was committed by Johnson. [170] Cole was posthumously exonerated; it was the first posthumous DNA exoneration in the history of the state of Texas. [171]
Convicted of 17 counts of aggravated robbery, 8 counts of robbery, and 1 count of weapons violation. He was given 17 64 year sentences and 8 24 year sentences totalling 1,256 years. Given another 10-year sentence. [58] Sentenced to 6 years in 2003 for the bank robbery before. Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi 2007 1,243 years Spain
A Virginia prosecutor last week charged seven Henrico County sheriff’s deputies and three staff members at the hospital with second-degree murder. They were indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday.
Convicted for his role in the 2002 DC Sniper attacks and sentenced to multiple terms of life imprisonment in both Virginia and Maryland for the murders of ten victims. He was originally sent to Red Onion State Prison, following conviction, but was transferred to Keen Mountain Correctional Center in 2024. [17] [18] [19]