Arkansas man released after 35 years for murder he didn’t commit

Credit: THV11

An Arkansas man was released from prison Friday after serving more than three decades for a murder he said he did not commit.

Charlie Vaughn had been incarcerated since 1991 for the 1988 murder, rape, and burglary of 81-year-old Myrtle Holmes. DNA testing conducted in 1989 had excluded Vaughn as the source of the sexual assault, but he was charged anyway and later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder to avoid the death penalty, despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime…

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