As the innocence community mourns the loss of Curtis Flowers, his legacy reminds us that the fight for criminal and racial ...

Case after case has exposed the continued unreliability of our capital punishment system, writes Innocence Project Executive ...

On Nov. 13, 1980, the body of Patricia Jeschke was found in the bedroom of her apartment on the east side of St. Joseph, Missouri. Ms. Jeschke was a secretary at the St. Joseph Public Library, and her ...

At about noon on November 29, 1988, a 74-year-old woman was taking her daily walk along an abandoned railroad bed in Rochester, NY, when she was shot twice in the head with a BB gun, struck with a ...

In July 2022, more than 33 years after Leroy Harris was convicted of sexual assault and robbery in New Haven, Connecticut, he was granted an absolute pardon. In the early morning hours of May 21, 1983 ...

In the early morning hours of May 11, 1978, 28-year-old Lawrence Lionberg and 23-year-old Carol Schmal were abducted from a gas station where Mr. Lionberg worked in Homewood, Illinois, a southern ...

Several hours later, B.S. regained consciousness, called a neighbor, and left a message on the answering machine that “someone killed my grandmother.” She then walked to another neighbor’s house and ...

At 2:15 p.m. on June 1, 1989, the body of 69-year-old Lula Mae Woods, the wife of a retired Chicago police officer, was found on the floor of her open garage on the south side of Chicago, Illinois.

In the summer of 1985, Carolyn Muncey was found dead near her home in rural Luttrell, Tennessee. Dressed in a nightgown and house coat, her bloodied body was found under some brush on the bank of a ...

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On the morning of Sept. 22, 1988, an 11-year-old girl, identified as R.D., reported to her mother that as she was waiting for the school bus in Dorchester, Massachusetts, she had been grabbed by a ...

On the afternoon of Dec. 8, 1981, a 17-year-old girl was changing clothes in her home in Canaveral Groves, Florida, when she was confronted and sexually assaulted by a man holding a utility knife.