Keith Allan Harward Is Innocent of the Crimes for Which He Has Been Convicted

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Chrisas team got to work reviewing the case, and they called the virginia supreme court looking for case files. The box of evidence was sent away for dian testing, including the bottle of pepsy that teresa and jesse prone's attacker drank from. On every item tested, keith harward was not a match. A profile was uploaded to a national d an a data base called cotis, and identified a sailor named jerry crody who had been on the us. S karl vincent at the time of the murder and the rape. And a day later, he was released from prison after 33 years. What was i like to be with keith

In 1982, forensic dentists examined the teeth of thousands of sailors stationed on an aircraft carrier called the USS Carl Vinson in Newport News, Virginia. It’s been called “the largest dental dragnet likely in U.S. history.”

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