Kirk Bloodsworth
- Year
- 1985
- Where
- Maryland
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth (born October 31, 1960) is a former Maryland waterman and the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing. He had been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of the 1984 rape and first-degree murder of a nine-year-old girl in Rosedale, Maryland. By the time an appeal based on the DNA evidence was underway, his sentence had been commuted to two consecutive life…
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Podcast episodes
- The Case of Kirk Bloodsworth: America’s First DNA ExonerationCrimes of the Centuries · 2022
- Kirk Bloodsworth: When DNA Evidence Reveals the TruthWrongfully Convicted: Justice Derailed · 2025
- Kirk Bloodsworth: The Stain Beneath the ArrowMaterial Fact: True Crime · 2026
- DNA's First Redemption: The Kirk Bloodsworth Exoneration SagaHidden Threads: Real Private Investigators. Real Cases. Real Stories. · 2025
- E17: Kirk Bloodsworth: Man ExoneratedProfessional Skepticism Podcast · 2022
In the Internet Archive
- The Colbert Report : COM : March 5, 2013 1:30am-2:00am PSTVideo · 2013
- America Tonight : ALJAZAM : September 1, 2014 2:00am-3:01am EDTVideo · 2014
- DNA evidenceText · 2010
- The Colbert Report : COM : March 13, 2013 10:30am-11:00am PDTVideo · 2013
- The Colbert Report : COM : March 13, 2013 1:30am-2:00am PDTVideo · 2013
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