Innocence Project: Judge nears ruling in Slover murder case
DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – The fight over DNA in a Macon County courtroom in a decades-old murder case is one step away from a ruling.
The Exoneration Project is working alongside the Illinois Innocence Project (IIP) in an effort to exonerate members of the Slover family, who were convicted in 2002 of killing Hearn Slover in 1996. Michael Slover, Jeanette Slover and Michael Slover Jr. were all found guilty of murder.
In early June, the Illinois Innocence Project filed a motion asking the Illinois State Police (ISP) to submit DNA profiles into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) in hopes of identifying the true killer or killers of Karyn Hearn Slover.
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