HUFFINGTON POST: …The two New York natives recalled the night of the 1992 murders to CNN. Antonio Yarbough, 18 at the time, and Sharrif Wilson, 15, went home after a night of partying. Yarbough found his mother, sister and family friend stabbed and strangled to death.
“Before you know it, I had this photograph shoved in my face, and I was being threatened and slapped around, and they wanted me to sign a false confession,” Yarbough said. “And I wouldn’t.”
But Yarbough’s friend Wilson signed a false confession after he says police coerced him into it. And that led to their men’s eventual conviction and 21 years behind bars.
But the New York Daily News reports new DNA evidence surfaced in September 2013. A specimen found on a murder victim in 1999, when both men were already behind bars, matched material found under Yarbough’s mother’s fingernails. The new evidence suggested his mother’s killer is still out there… (more)
