Missouri Man Kevin Strickland Who Spent More Than 40 Years in Prison for Triple Murder He Didn’t Commit Is Now Free

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Missouri Man Who Spent More Than 40 Years in Prison for Triple Murder He Didn’t Commit Is Now Free

24 November 2021

A Missouri man who has spent more than 40 years in prison is now a free man, after being convicted of three murders he didn’t commit. Kevin Strickland left the Western Missouri Correctional Center on Tuesday. He had been in prison since he was 18 years old. After his first prosecution stumbled with a hung jury, a second panel convicted him of three murders in 1979, despite no physical evidence tying him to the crime. An eyewitness later recanted her testimony. Strickland, now 62, was convicted in the 1978 shooting deaths of Larry Ingram, 21, John Walker, 20, and, Sherrie ...

Missouri Man Who Spent More Than 40 Years in Prison for Triple Murder He Didn't Commit Is Now Free

A Missouri man who has spent more than 40 years in prison is now a free man, after being convicted of three murders he didn't commit.

lawandcrime.com

 

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Kevin Strickland Comes Home After 43 Years Behind Bars For a Crime He Didn't Commit

25 November 2021

Cynthia Douglas didn't recognize the man holding the shotgun the night her boyfriend and best friend were murdered. It was around 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday evening when four men entered Larry Ingram’s bungalow in Kansas City, Missouri, where Douglas was hanging out with Ingram, her best friend Sherri Black, and her boyfriend, Jack Walker. Douglas was the only one to survive what would later be described as an execution-style attack. She told police she recognized two of the assailants right away — Vincent Bell and Kilm Adkins — but the other two were a mystery. One was wearing something ...

Kevin Strickland Comes Home After 43 Years Behind Bars for a Crime He Didn’t Commit

A new Missouri law empowers prosecutors to right wrongful convictions. But the state attorney general is intent on standing in the way.

theintercept.com