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Sep 6, 2003 · Baltimore County, Md, police charge Kimberly Shay Ruffner in 1984 murder and rape of Dawn Hamilton, 9, crime for which Kirk Bloodsworth was convicted, but freed after nine years in 1993 based...
Jul 13, 2013 · DNA testing proved his innocence and matched the DNA of the perpetrator, Kimberly Shay Ruffner. Since his exoneration in 1993, Bloodsworth has tirelessly campaigned against capital punishment and has become a leading advocate for Witness to Innocence, a group of exonerated death-row inmates who speak out against the consequences of wrongful ...
Apr 28, 2022 · After Bloodsworth’s conviction was reversed in 1986, he occupied a cell directly above that occupied by Kimberly Shay Ruffner, who was serving a sentence for another rape and who—a decade after Bloodsworth’s exoneration—would be linked by DNA to the rape and murder of the Hamilton child.
Oct 29, 2014 · In 2003, nearly ten years after his release from prison, Bloodsworth learned from the Baltimore County prosecutor's office that prisoner DNA evidence added to state and federal databases had led to the identification of the real killer, a man named Kimberly Shay Ruffner.
Sep 6, 2003 · In his final years in prison, Kirk Bloodsworth had a passing acquaintance with a fellow inmate, Kimberly Shay Ruffner. Bloodsworth, a prison librarian, brought Ruffner books. Sometimes they...
Sep 23, 2003 · In her research, Miller learned that Kimberly Ruffner, the new suspect in a 19-year-old murder case, was charged three times with sex offenses -- two charges involving little girls. Despite...
Sep 6, 2003 · The suspect, Brobst went on, is already in prison in Maryland, halfway through a 45-year sentence for burglary, attempted rape and assault with intent to murder. His name: Kimberly Shay...
