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In July of 1985, Kevin Byrd was 17 years old and employed as a carpenter working for L&B Realtors...

Gerald Ford was still the President when Michael Evans and another teenager were convicted of a rape and murder they knew nothing about...

Harold Hall was wrongfully convicted in June of 1985 for the murder and rape of Nola Duncan and the murder of her brother David Rainey...

Vincent Moto was pushing his baby son in a stroller down a Philadelphia street in 1985, when a woman passed him on the street and accused him...

In 1984, Buddy Nickerson was not an angel in the eyes of the criminal justice system. He rode a Harley Davidson with a carefree attitude that would cease in September of that year...

Aaron Owens was arranging for flowers to be delivered to his mother and wife on Mother’s Day in 1973 when two murders took place in Oakland, California...

David Shawn Pope was exonerated and freed in 2001 after DNA testing proved his innocence of a 1985 sexual assault...

Harsh and coercive interrogation tactics led a teenage victim to suggest her assailant was Peter Rose...

On February 1, 1986, Samuel Scott and Douglas Echols were enjoying an evening with a female friend...

On January 6, 1983, around 2:15pm, someone committed an armed robbery at a supermarket in Roxbury, Massachusetts while another stood guard outside...

In 1981, Calvin Willis was convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for a rape he did not have anything to do with...

In 1994, Cedric Willis was 19 years old, a young man with no criminal record, and the father of a newborn son...

In 1975, Leslie Vass was a 17-year-old star basketball player at his high school in Baltimore....

In the early 1990s, Virginian Beverly Monroe was convicted of the murder of her longtime companion...

In 1984, 19-year-old Darryl Hunt was convicted of raping and murdering a young, newspaper reporter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina...

In 1988, Chris Ochoa and his roommate were arrested for the rape and murder of an Austin-area Pizza Hut waitress...

In 1983, Billy was sleeping in his Dallas bedroom in the middle of the night when police officers burst in and took him out to the porch where a woman in a squad car nodded to identify him as her rapist...