Clemente’s trial lawyer failed to hire forensic experts, request DNA testing on crime scene evidence, or investigate alternative suspects, despite records indicating Carol Williams’s daughter had threatened her mother’s life. DNA testing years later excluded Clemente and pointed to Williams’s daughter, who had by then made repeated admissions that she committed the murders. In 2016, the Florida Supreme Court overturned his conviction, but prosecutors announced plans to retry him and again seek the death penalty. After additional evidence further undermined the alibi of the victims’ daughter and granddaughter, prosecutors dropped all charges as the new trial began in November 2018. Today, Clemente is living in a community home founded by fellow exonerees and is enrolling in culinary school.

A reinvestigation discovered that detectives who interrogated Huwe obtained false confessions from two other individuals just months before Huwe’s arrest. Newly discovered evidence suggested the murder was committed by the family’s neighbor, who had a history of violent crime and died before Huwe’s trial. Based on these revelations and the current understanding of false confessions, Huwe’s conviction was vacated and charges were dismissed in January. This November, Huwe and one of his attorneys Susan Friedman ran together in the TCS New York City Marathon.

Steven was released in 2015 after a reinvestigation demonstrated his innocence. The case prompted the Texas Forensic Science Commission to study bite mark analysis and ultimately recommend the nation’s first moratorium on the technique in criminal trials. This January, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that the “bite mark evidence, which once appeared proof positive of… guilt, no longer proves anything.” Since his release, Steven has volunteered in prison ministry and returned to the ironworking he did before his wrongful arrest. His exoneration this year makes him eligible for state compensation.

Instead, Belynda was convicted without any eyewitness or physical evidence connecting her to the crime. The police focused on her exclusively as a suspect, solely because her husband’s body was found in their home. Belynda always maintained her innocence and refused a plea bargain that would have allowed for her release years ago. This June, noting the extensive weaknesses in her conviction and new evidence that likely would result in an acquittal if presented to a new jury, a judge freed her from her wrongful incarceration. Today, she lives with her daughter and her family, and enjoys taking her grandchildren to school and volunteering at a local animal shelter.

The district attorney’s office also helped track down additional documents and witnesses. DNA testing also identified blood at the scene that did not come from Stanley, Dennis or the victim. Over recent years, four Dallas district attorneys agreed in court papers that the men were wrongfully convicted and authorized reinvestigations of their case, leading to their 2014 release and this year’s exoneration. Stanley, who is legally blind, volunteers for an organization that investigates wrongful convictions and supports people returning from prison. He was awarded state compensation in September 2019, and he and his wife Shirley, who had a child together before his arrest and married after his release, are looking for their first home.

At trial, it was known that crime scene fingerprints were not from Archie or the victim, but prosecutors argued the prints could have been left by men doing home repairs. After 23 years of state opposition, earlier this year a new judge ordered the prints be searched in the FBI’s national database. In just hours Archie’s innocence was demonstrated when the prints were found to belong to a serial assailant. During decades at Louisiana’s infamous Angola prison, Archie coached the prison boxing team and nurtured his lifelong passion for music. Since his exoneration, he sang at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre in New York and resumed his education at a community college at age 59.