His story started in the shadows, and it stayed there for more than two decades.
Lamonte McIntyre was 17 in 1994 when he was arrested in Kansas City, Kansas, for a double murder he didn’t commit. He was convicted and got two life sentences later that year, then served 23 years in prison.
In 22 of those 23 years, The Kansas City Star couldn’t figure out how to spell his first name, publishing all of four paragraphs on his case in two separate instances…