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David Vasquez was wrongly convicted of a murder in Virginia in 1985 based on false confessions and eyewitness misidentification. He was exonerated in 1989 after DNA testing linked the crime to another man, Timothy Spencer, who was executed in 1994.
Jul 17, 2018 · David Vasquez, a mentally challenged man, was falsely accused and imprisoned for the murder of Carolyn Hamm in 1984. He was exonerated in 1989 after DNA evidence linked the crime to Timothy Spencer, the South Side Strangler.
David Vasquez. 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. On January 4, 1989, he received a gubernatorial pardon based on innocence after another man was convicted ...
Jan 4, 2008 · Vasquez was wrongfully convicted of a 1984 murder in Virginia and served four years in prison. He was one of the first people to be exonerated by DNA testing in the US and was pardoned by the governor in 1989.
Jan 9, 2009 · David Vasquez was exonerated 19 years ago when DNA testing proved he could not have been responsible for other similar murders. Officially exonerated in 1989, Vasquez previously pled guilty to the murder of a woman in Arlington County, Virginia, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
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Jul 27, 2015 · Vasquez’s only hope was a pardon from the governor. To make a case for Vasquez, Fahey formally requested the help of the FBI, including Special Agent John Douglas. Douglas had founded the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in the early 1980s after interviewing some of the most notorious serial killers in history, including David Berkowitz, Ted ...
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 ...
