A former Detroit homicide detective whose interrogation tactics have led to exonerations and multimillion-dollar settlements is now connected to another vacated conviction.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office announced Tuesday that George Calicut Jr.’s murder conviction has been thrown out and his case dismissed after a review found his conviction rested on a now-discredited “confession” taken by former Detroit homicide investigator Barbara Simon.
Calicut, 56, was convicted of first-degree felony murder and sentenced to life without parole in the March 1999 killing of Virgie Perkins, whose body was found in her Hartford Street home in Detroit…