# Beatrice Six

Overturned · 1989

The Beatrice Six are Joseph White, Thomas Winslow, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Debra Shelden, James Dean and Kathy Gonzalez, who were falsely found guilty in 1989 of the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska and served prison terms before being exonerated in 2009. The conviction was one of five confessions which were obtained under threats that they would be given the death penalty if they did not.…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=41422819
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/beatrice-six-w41422819

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