To avoid a death sentence for a 1984 rape-murder in Arlington, Virginia—a crime to which he had falsely confessed—David Vasquez pled guilty to second-degree murder and burglary and was sentenced to twenty years in prison.

On Jan. 4, 1989, David Vasquez, who had pled guilty to a 1984 rape and murder in Arlington, Virginia, was granted a gubernatorial pardon based on innocence. The pardon was issued after another man was convicted of three virtually identical crimes based on DNA testing.

2015年7月27日 · Two weeks after Hamm’s body was discovered, detectives had arrested David Vasquez, a janitor at a local McDonald’s, who confessed after two eyewitnesses placed him on the street that day. Vasquez was now serving a 35-year prison sentence downstate, although police had doubts about his role in Hamm’s murder, given that he had an IQ of less ...

2018年7月17日 · When they requested hair and blood samples, his sister called the police, saying that she was friends with Hamm and that Hamm had complained about a neighborhood man, David Vasquez, peeping on...

David Vasquez was exonerated 19 years ago when DNA testing proved he could not have been responsible for other similar murders. Officially exonerated in 1989, Vasquez previously pled guilty to the murder of a woman in Arlington County, Virginia, and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Vasquez had served almost three years when a rape-murder similar to Hamm’s was committed in her neighborhood. On December 1, 1987, Susan Ann Tucker, 44, was strangled with white thin nylon cord similar to that which had bound Hamm’s hands.

Vasquez was charged with capital murder -- which carries the death penalty -- after "confessing" in interrogations with two Arlington detectives, who told him details of the crime scene that ...

2007年5月20日 · DAVID VASQUEZ was a janitor of borderline intelligence when he confessed to the 1984 rape and murder of a young woman in Arlington, Va.

No transcript – court file indicates that people identified Vasquez as having been in the neighborhood of the victim’s house at the time of the crime. Examples of Non-Public or Corroborated Facts and Inconsistencies

"David Vasquez was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in February 1985 based on an eyewitness, a false positive analysis of pubic hairs recovered from the crime scene, and a false confession to the crime by Vasquez.