living room floor, shallered. a pair of bloody ice tongs. dorothy edwards was found dead in her closet. the brutality of the crime scene, the blood, the way the body was, the stab wounds post mortem was just totally unbelievable. dorothy s body had 52 wounds, 11 broken ribs and abrasions on her vagina. the state forensic tape gathered what evidence was found inside the home. hair samples were found on the bed. blood at various places. outside there were some fingerprints. in a crime scene wiped clean of fingerprints, police believe the killer made a mistake. a thumbprint found on the backdoor. dorothy s neighbor james holloway told police that edward lee elmore, a 23-year-old handyman worked for dorothy from time to time. although he had never been convicted of a felony, police
were you afraid of dying? not in a way, but like i say, i knew the truth would eventually come out, right. so that s that s kept me going. it kept my faith right, and just taking it one day at a time. that s all you can do, you know, and hope and pray that everything come out all right. mr. elmore had been incarcerated for 11,000 days. the judge told mr. elmore that he had exhausted his sentence and he was free to go. you are free to go, mr. elmore. we could walk him out that door of the courtroom and down those steps as a free man. and that was i m sorry. that was the best moment of my life as an attorney.
back positive that it was the victim s blood. prosecutors also told the jury that dozens of elmore s pubic hairs were found on dorothy s bed. and finally, prosecutors presented james gilliam. a prison inmate who claimed to have heard elmore confess to the crime while in jail. that came out of nowhere. that just rocked me. mr. elmore told gilliam that i went down there to rob the lady and she started screaming and i killed her. that was the lynchpin. the jury took less than five hours to reach a verdict. elmore was convicted and sentenced to death. but the conviction was overturned on appeal. there was one juror who was reluctant to impose the death penalty. the trial judge went into the jury room and put pressure on the holdout juror to impose the death sentence. a new trial was ordered.
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dismissal of all charges that we can do to settle this matter? and i said, in fact there is. he goes free at the bond hearing, and he is going to continue to say the truth he said all of these years, i m innocent. and the prosecutor said, okay. but the plea required that elmore say in open court that the state could likely prove their charges against him at a trial. it wasn t the exoneration they were hoping for, but it would mean freedom. new tonight, he was once on death row. now he is a free man. after 30 years, edward elmore was released from prison today. oh, thank the lord. give me a minute i m a little overwhelmed right now. i mean, so excited. i couldn t hardly speak. locked up all them years something i didn t do, and comes along, she believed in me.