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In 2001, Cooper became the first death row inmate in California to successfully request post-conviction DNA testing of evidence. The results of those DNA tests failed to exonerate him of the 1983 murders and indicated (1) Cooper's DNA was present both at the crime scene and in the stolen station wagon, (2) hairs found on three of the victims ...
Date apprehended. January 18, 1983. Imprisoned at. New Jersey State Prison. James Jerold Koedatich (born June 12, 1948) is an American serial killer who kidnapped and murdered two young women within a two-weeks span in Morris County, New Jersey, in late 1982. Following his arrest, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, but was ...
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. [ 1][ 2] He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland. By the time an appeal based on the DNA ...
The New Jersey Attorney General's office is investigating why a man died following a "medical episode" while under arrest in Toms River. NJ investigates death of man in police custody in Toms ...
Authorities ruled the death of a man found in the Hackensack River over the weekend a homicide following an autopsy, Hudson County officials said.
Family wants DNA testing on strand of hair that could hold key to care home resident’s death. MICHAEL RUBINKAM. June 21, 2024 at 2:05 PM. A single black hair could help bring clarity to the ...
New Jersey executed a total of 361 people from its inception to the abolition of the death penalty on December 17, 2007. [ 1] The first person executed was a slave known to history only as Tom for a rape in 1690. The last execution was of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. Of those executions, 187 occurred in the 20th century. [ 2]
At least 361 people have been officially executed in New Jersey (including the pre- Revolution Colony of New Jersey) starting with the execution of a slave named Tom for rape in 1690 and ending with the execution of Ralph Hudson for murder on January 22, 1963. The last execution for a crime other than murder was of Andrew Clark in 1872 for rape ...