The day of his release, Bledsoe recalls, was a mixture of celebration and mourning. Within a month, a judge vacated Bledsoe’s conviction and he was released from prison. The crime scene yielded little physical evidence, and Bledsoe’s brother, Tom, 25, had originally confessed to the murder before recanting and pinning the crime on Floyd.Īfter years of fruitless court challenges, Bledsoe was vindicated in a gut-wrenching twist: In 2015, Tom Bledsoe confessed to the murder in a suicide note before asphyxiating himself. But the jury entered the courtroom and declared him guilty.īledsoe was sentenced to life in prison plus 16 years, but doubts about his involvement in the murder lingered. Throughout the trial, he maintained his innocence.
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In April 2000, 23-year-old Floyd Bledsoe sat in an Oskaloosa, Kansas, courtroom awaiting the verdict in his first-degree murder trial in the death of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, Zetta “Camille” Arfmann. © Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via The Associated Press Many states, including Kansas, are trying to figure out what people like Bledsoe are owed for the time they spent behind bars. Floyd Bledsoe, center, after walking out of the Oskaloosa, Kansas, courthouse a free man in December 2015, after new evidence showed he was wrongly convicted of murder in 2000.
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