Kevin Strickland spent his 62nd birthday behind bars. It’s the 43rd time he has spent a birthday in prison and says he desperately hopes it will be his last.
Kevin Strickland, imprisoned for 43 years for a crime the admitted killers and the key witness say he didn’t commit, has maintained his innocence since he was 18.
Weeks later, Strickland is still behind bars. He says he doesn’t think he has “a lot of time left,” and sometimes needs a wheelchair to get around. The grisly shooting took the lives of 20-year-old John Walker, 22-year-old Sherrie Black and 21-year-old Larry Ingram. It took place more than 2 miles away from Strickland’s family home, where he was staying.
Police said they had found Strickland’s fingerprint on Bell’s car. Strickland, who’d grown up with Bell, said he had driven the car on multiple occasions. He said he was in “total disbelief.” However, Strickland still didn’t think he’d end up convicted, believing, “no, the system works.” Both Bell and Adkins ultimately admitted to the murders and cleared Strickland from any role in the crime in sworn confessions.During a press conference earlier this month, Prosecutor Baker, who was not involved in the original case, said, “it is important to recognize when the system has made wrongs and what we did in this case was wrong.”“Yes. Coming from her,” he said. “Yes, because she didn't have to say that.
“She didn't do this intentionally,” Strickland said. “Kansas City Police Department pushed trying to identify me. … I believe they kind of told her, either you're going to work with us or we're going to place these charges on you. Might [have] even suggested that she was involved in some kind of way.”The Kansas City Police Department said in a statement to ABC News that “this case was tried and prosecuted by the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.
Strickland has served more than 15,000 days behind bars. If exonerated, his term will be one of the longest wrongful imprisonments in U.S. history. “[Commutation is] kind of saying I did it but you feel like I have served enough time. No, I didn't do it,” he said. “No, wipe it off.” Kevin Strickland said that he joked with a friend that he might have to live under a bridge if he is released.
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