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Nineteen years ago, in 1985, four people described a horrific murder and rape of a 68 year old woman from Beatice, Nebraska.� Three of those witnesses Ada JoAnn Taylor, James L. Dean, and Kathy Gonzalez, told investigators that two men Thomas Winslow and Joseph White repeatedly took turns raping the victim while holding her down. Taylor even said she held a pillow over the victim's face during the assault, suffocating her.� These "confessions" led to four convictions.� White was sentenced to life in prison.� Winslow, fearing the death penalty, ultimately admitted to being present at the crime scene, and pled guilty to a reduced charge of aiding and abetting a second degree murder.� Taylor was sentenced to 10 to 40 years for aiding and abetting second degree murder and Dean and Gonzalez each were sentenced to� to 10 years for aiding and abetting second-degree murder.� Case closed, right?

Well, the case was closed for 19 years until earlier this week when new DNA test results, the first to lead to the release of a prisoner in Nebraska, opened the cell doors for Joseph White.� White walked out of prison a free man, proclaiming his innocence, something he had screamed for nearly two decades but which fell upon deaf ears.� Nebraska passed its post-conviction DNA law in 2001.� DNA test results of more than 40 samples submitted to three different crime labs (blood, semen, and hair)� found at the crime scene excluded both White and Winslow.� Based on the results, Saline County District Court Judge Vicky Johnson ruled that while neither man was exonerated by the evidence, both were entitled to relief -- she granted White a new trial and ordered his release, and set Winslow up for a new sentencing hearing.� Winslow is expected to be released later this week with a sentence of time-served and barring some new evidence against White, a new trial is unlikely.�

What has happened to the other defendants is unclear from the articles in the Omaha World Herald News and other sources.� But Jerry Soucie, defense attorney for White, gave a hint of what he thinks happened in the case. He plans on writing a book on the case entitled "Four False Confessions."

Stay tuned for further developments in this potential multiple false confession case.

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