The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.
Family tried to keep tabs on victim
Homewood woman leaves behind seven children
Thursday, September 20, 2007
By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
People gathered along Formosa Way near where a woman was found shot to death yesterday morning in Homewood.
The body of Nicole E. Bennett, the woman found dead yesterday in Homewood, was discovered in a place that her family always …
[Read more...]
January 29, 2006
By Bill Moushey and Elizabeth Perry
Joey Jones told seven people he shot a man dead outside a Monview Heights tenement and he matched the description two others gave of the killer, but, on the witness stand, Mr. Jones pointed the finger at Paul Ford Jr.
Crack addict Nikela Carrington told police she watched Mr. Ford rob and kill a man that day in 1994, but she was in her …
[Read more...]