Cateresa Matthews was only 14 when she was brutally raped and murdered in Illinois in 1991 – and police botched her investigation. They sent five innocent boys to prison scapegoating justice for her family. In 2012, after spending a cumulative 78 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit, all five were exonerated by More

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