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Name: William Kelly Year of conviction: 1990  Incident date: 1/8/90 Exoneration date: 1/8/93  Jurisdiction:PA Sentence served: 2.5 years  Charge: third-degree murder Real perpetrator found? yesSentence: 10-20 year

 contributing causes: eyewitness misidentifcation false confessions/admissions  compensation? not yet

 In February of 1990, a young woman’s body was found in a landfill near the Dauphin County pauper cemetery. She was last seen on January 8th at a local bar with a man, who matched the description of Kelly. Investigators determined she was raped before being beating to death. Kelly had given the police a false written confession. Two eye witness assumed they seen Kelly with the woman at a local bar the night she went missing. Kelly plead guilty to the convictions.  August of 1992, Joseph P. Miller, also facing trial for similar murders in the area, led detectives to the exact landfill the victim was found. The detectives also found the remains of two other victims. The District Attorney of Dauphin County, Richard A. Lewis, ordered a reinvestigation of the murder and subsequent DNA testing, which implicated Miller as the donor of the semen for on the victim’s body. After serving two and half years Miller was found innocent.