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Status: Exonerated by DNA. Alternative Perpetrator Identified: Yes. Type of Crime: Homicide-related, Sex Crimes. Forensic Science at Issue: Hair Analysis. In 1985, David Vasquez was wrongly convicted of a murder he did not commit in Virginia. He was later exonerated in 1989.
Jul 17, 2018 · When they requested hair and blood samples, his sister called the police, saying that she was friends with Hamm and that Hamm had complained about a neighborhood man, David Vasquez, peeping on...
David Vasquez - National Registry of Exonerations. Other Virgina False Confession Cases. To avoid a death sentence for a 1984 rape-murder in Arlington, Virginia—a crime to which he had falsely confessed—David Vasquez pled guilty to second-degree murder and burglary and was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Jan 4, 2008 · 01.04.08. David Vasquez, a Virginia man who served four years in prison for a 1984 murder he didn’t commit, was exonerated on January 4, 1989. Today marks the 19th anniversary of the day of his release from prison after DNA proved that another man had committed the murder.
Jul 27, 2015 · Two weeks after Hamm’s body was discovered, detectives had arrested David Vasquez, a janitor at a local McDonald’s, who confessed after two eyewitnesses placed him on the street that day. Vasquez was now serving a 35-year prison sentence downstate, although police had doubts about his role in Hamm’s murder, given that he had an IQ of less ...
Jan 9, 2009 · Virginia Man Celebrates Almost 20 Years Since Exoneration. 01.09.09. After supposedly confessing to a crime he did not commit and serving four years in prison, David Vasquez. was exonerated 19 years ago when DNA testing proved he could not have been responsible for other similar murders.
david vasquez, dna, exmoneration, serial killer, southside strangler, timohty spencer. Clipping from the Jan 5, 1989 of the The Free Lance-Star. On Tuesday, January 24, 1984 and Wednesday, January 25, attorney Carolyn Jean Hamm, 32, did not go to work. Her secretary called Hamm’s friend, Darla Henry, telling Henry of Hamm’s unexplained ...
Jul 17, 1989 · Vasquez was charged with capital murder -- which carries the death penalty -- after "confessing" in interrogations with two Arlington detectives, who told him details of the crime scene that...
May 20, 2007 · DAVID VASQUEZ was a janitor of borderline intelligence when he confessed to the 1984 rape and murder of a young woman in Arlington, Va. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison and spent 5 years...
Apr 28, 2000 · But they've forgotten about David Vasquez. Almost everyone has. A developmentally disabled custodian from Manassas, Vasquez was so scared of execution that he effectively pleaded guilty to a...
