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On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison after DNA evidence proved that he did not murder the victim and identified the killer: Kenneth Phillips, a repeatedly violent sexual offender. Journalist Robert Nelson later wrote that ample crime scene evidence and interviews should have excluded
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Killer" (a feature which has since been corrected) and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a bartender in Phoenix, Arizona in 1991. Kim Ancona, who was 35 years old, was found dead in a bar where Krone often played darts. The 1992
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Krone as a suspect, and all pointed toward Phillips, but this data were ignored by the police and the prosecution's purported experts. In 2005, Krone received a settlement of $ 1.4 million from Maricopa County and $ 3 million from the city of Phoenix.
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conviction, which was upheld on appeal in 1996, hinged on expert testimony, included claiming an impression of Krone's teeth matched bite marks found on the victim's body, a detail that was disputed by dental experts called by the defense in court.
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Since Krone's release, he has become an activist working for the abolition of the death penalty, and he is the director of Membership and Training for
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murder
death row
death penalty in the United States
Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Dover Area High School
Snaggletooth
Witness to Innocence
Forensic Files
Extreme Makeover
Biography portal
List of exonerated death row inmates
List of wrongful convictions in the United States
Innocence Project – Ray Krone


"About Face"
Phoenix New Times
"Former death row inmate eager to share message"
Reading Eagle
"Exonerated Death Row Inmate Tells His Chilling Story"
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
"Exonerated 'snaggletooth killer' gets extreme makeover"
ABC News
Reuters
"Southwest: Arizona: $ 3 Million For Exoneration"
The New York Times
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Archived
Wayback Machine
Justice Denied – Issue 32

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