Beals returned home in December after serving more than three decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit the second-longest wrongful incarceration in Illinois' history.
Brian Beals was convicted in the 1988 murder of a 6-year-old. At the time, Beals, a 22-year-old student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was home in Chicago during Thanksgiving break.
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