Philadelphia police have reopened only one out of 41 murder cases exonerated by the District Attorney's Office, the NBC10 Investigators determined.
Philadelphia police have reopened only one out of 41 murder cases exonerated by the District Attorney's Office, the NBC10 Investigators determined.As for the other 40 exonerated cases that haven’t been reopened by police, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner says he hopes the new administration will take a new look.
The exonerations have left some of the victims’ families confused and in search of answers for who killed their loved ones. “We're shocked because now you're telling us that these are not the ones,” said Mary Flomo, the widow of slain Philadelphia Police Officer Terrence Flomo. “So, if these are not the ones now, who is?”
But that original investigation was found to be fraught with issues, including a coerced confession. “I'm just telling you what our investigation showed,” Vanore said. “We were not seeing some kind of a robust effort on the part of PPD to look at exoneration cases, to reinvestigate them, even where it was clear that people were innocent,” he said. “The new leadership has the opportunity right now to go a different way to do the right thing.”Vanore told NBC10 cold case detectives review every exoneration to see what the DA’s investigation found.
Police arrested William Johnson and Mumim Slaughter after two sex workers said the two men had gone up to Flomo’s car and then gunshots went off. Johnson and Slaughter were convicted of third-degree murder.
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