Could Missouri kill an innocent man? Lawyers say evidence clears Marcellus Williams

“This is a case where the police had no leads from the beginning and they had no information. And out of desperation, folks offered a reward. And one of those witnesses then came forward and demanded payment. In addition to that, the other witness only came forward after she was arrested by police on her own warrant.

This crime scene had a lot of forensic evidence. There were fingerprints, bloody footprints. There were hairs found at the crime scene. There was residual DNA on the murder weapon. And none of that has come back to match Mr. Williams. The DNA left on that murder weapon, which was still found protruding from the victim's body, is not Mr. Williams’. There is an unknown male profile on that murder weapon, because someone else committed this crime.”