The National
Registry of
Exonerations

On the night of August 19, 1998, 35-year-old Christopher Thomas was fatally shot outside the Three Point Motel on Bypass Road in Elkhart, Indiana. Thomas was living in room 18 and had been working…

On October 22, 2007, at 9:50 a.m., a man robbed the Chase Bank branch on West 56th Street on the northside of Indianapolis, Indiana. He walked quickly past Laurie Russell, a customer, then showed a…

At about 7 a.m. on August 30, 1989, a woman on Staten Island, New York, was sexually assaulted as she walked from her house to catch the ferry into Manhattan. The woman told police that a man…

On the evening of January 28, 2006, a group of men standing at the corner of 29 th Street and Westmont Street in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania fired several…

In March 2011, a young girl known as P.J. told her maternal grandmother that Daniel Spade, her biological father, had sexually abused her in a hotel near Spartanburg, South Carolina.  Spade lived in…

On August 28, 2018, Crystal Banks drove her former boyfriend, 32-year-old Andre Fort, to the Warren, Michigan trailer home of 24-year-old Reinaldo Jamison. Fort suspected Jamison in the theft of…

On August 16, 1973, two women reported being raped at the Castle Hill Houses, a public-housing development in the Bronx, New York. The victims said they were attacked at different times, and each…

On July 5, 1999, police in Austin, Texas, were called to the home of Marshall Moreno and his partner, Rhonda Moore, to investigate a complaint of domestic abuse.  Police arrested Moore for assaulting…