Indiana Innocence Project announces wrongfully convicted Kristine Bunch as first ever Director

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — After 17 years behind bars, Kristine Bunch turned her pain and loss into purpose when she helped create the Indiana Innocence Project.

Bunch was convicted of setting the fire that killed her three-year-old son, Anthony, on June 30, 1995.17 years later she walked out of Indiana Women’s Prison with the help of Indiana’s first and only innocence project at the time. Now she’s working to help pay it forward.

“In order to deal with that pain and loss, I have to feel like I am turning that into something better.”…

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