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DNA Evidence Clears Two Men in 1983 Murder

By Jonathan M. Katz and Erik Eckholm September 2, 2014 LUMBERTON, N.C. — Thirty years after their convictions in the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in rural North Carolina, based on confessions that they quickly repudiated and said were coerced, two mentally disabled half brothers were declared innocent and ordered released Tuesday by […]