On Tuesday, September 20, Lt. Detective Les McFarland with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department obtained information from the Division of Child Services of alleged neglect involving two children at the residence of Rodney W. McNeal, Jr., in LaPaz. After an extensive investigation, a case report was submitted to the Marshall County Prosecutor's Office. An arrest
Gov. Newsom reverses parole for San Bernardino County man convicted of killing wife, unborn child
Also, on it: the California Innocence Project.
In March of 1997, Shantel Haynes faced the worst kind of tragedy. At the age, she says, My mother was heinously beaten, strangled, dragged, stabbed, thrown in a bathtub and drowned and chemicals thrown on her body.
Shantel Haynes is now 37 years old. That’s two years younger than when her mom was brutally killed.
Accused and convicted in the case was Rodney Patrick McNeal. He was a probation officer for San Bernardino County.
The California Innocence Project states on its website that McNeal should be freed based on post-DNA evidence from the crime scene that was inconclusive .