In 1991, my sister, Jacquetta, was murdered in Raleigh. Law enforcement assured me that they caught her killer, a man named Greg Taylor, and that he would be justly punished for his crime. While there is no such thing as closure when it comes to losing a loved one, there was a sense of relief that the right individual had been apprehended, tried and convicted for the murder of my sister. But more than 15 years later, I received a call that new evidence had come to light.
I was thrown into a process I hadn’t known existed — an investigation into Greg’s innocence was ongoing, and it was possible that he was innocent and would be exonerated for my sister’s murder. I desperately needed to know what to expect next, if my family was safe and if we would be able to maintain our privacy.
The staff of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, a state agency tasked with looking into possible wrongful convictions, stepped up and gave me the support I needed…