free him, has resorted to setting up a go fund me page. so far it s raised more than $450,000, which is fantastic. but mr. strickland shouldn t have to rely on a go fund me page for many. in the words oh it have kansas city star editorial reporter: the kansas city star and the midwest innocence project deserve praise for the work they have done to prove his innocence. but i fear their work may not have freed him without the efforts of this person, jackson county prosecutor gene peters baker. she took the step of not only reinvestigating the case that her office had made against mr. strickland four decades earlier, but publicly apologizing for those failures once she discovered he was innocent. she then advocated for the new missouri state law that allowed a judge to revisit mr. strickland s case, eventually winning his freedom in court. this is the prosecutor.