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Jane Hylton

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Episode 102 Jane Hylton

Sometime between 10:30 p.m. and 3:30 a.m. on the night of July 6-7, 1985, someone entered the house she was staying at and stabbed Jane 54 year old Jane Hylton 29 times. Police set their sights on the most likely suspect – another resident of the house, 20 year old Ricky Davis. It was just too far-fetched to believe that someone else random had come along and killed Jane, and Ricky was arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to prison. But when the Northern California Innocence Project took up his case, they found untested DNA evidence. And this evidence would change everything. Forensic genealogy showed that Ricky was innocent – and someone else entirely was to blame for Jane's vicious murder.

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