Richard Alexander
- Year
- 1996
- Where
- Indiana
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
Richard Alexander (born December 1966) is an Indiana man who was wrongfully convicted of a 1996 rape and exonerated in 2001 by DNA evidence. Years later, on September 17, 2020, Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander for domestic violence.
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