When Cindy Eastling of Wautoma saw her brother for the first time in over a decade, she hardly recognized him. He was very skinny, had a black eye and looked like “a scared little puppy,” Eastling said.
Her brother, Robert Bintz, was dropped off at her house Sept. 26, 2024, after spending nearly 25 years wrongfully incarcerated. Robert, 69, and his brother, David Bintz, 70, were wrongfully convicted of the 1987 murder of Sandra Lison, spending over two decades in prison until new DNA testing exonerated them in September.
Robert came home from prison with a variety of health problems, trauma and little money. There was no reintegration plan in place or preparation, Eastling said, “he was just thrown on to me.”…