He was jailed for 35 years for a crime he did not commit and will receive a millionaire compensation.

An American woman has spent 35 years in prison for a murder she did not commit, before being exonerated from the fact that DNA has revealed a cigarette butt found at the crime scene in Nevada. The victim has accepted an agreement and will take three million dollars.

Cathy Woods, 68, accused former detectives who forced her to confess in 1979 while she was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Louisiana.

The woman was released from prison in 2015 when new evidence links the 1976 murder of a student at Reno University and an Oregon trainee, Rodney Halbower. , who has since been convicted of two murders in the San Francisco Bay Area. They occurred during the same period.

The defense stated that the victim was suffering from psychosis and that she should never have been questioned by detectives investigating the murder of Michelle Mitchell in 1976, 19 years old. Woods, who currently lives with parents near the city of Anacortes, Washington, is the woman who has been unjustly imprisoned for the longest period in the history of the United States, according to the National Register of exemptions.

The Washoe County Commission has decided to pay $ 3 million to settle part of the federal lawsuit that had appointed the former Cal Dunlap County Attorney as defendant.