Lewis "Jim" Fogle is an American man who was wrongly convicted in 1982 for the murder of a 15-year-old girl. Fogle's conviction was vacated on DNA evidence in 2015, after he was forced to spend 34 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Lewis Fogle On July 31, 1976, a man picking blackberries discovered the partially-clad body of 15-year-old Deann Katherine Long in the woods near her home in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. An autopsy revealed that Long had been raped and shot once in the back of the head—not at close range, suggesting she may have been trying to flee when killed.

On March 19, 1981, police picked up Dennis Fogle and questioned him, and eventually obtained a confession that matched Elderkin’s statement almost exactly. As a result, Lewis Fogle was arrested, as were Lynch and Recesky. All were charged with murder and rape.

2021年8月14日 · In 1982, Lewis Fogle was convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old Indiana County girl and sentenced to life in prison. He’d spend 34 years in prison before DNA evidence exonerated him,...

2021年8月16日 · Before DNA evidence exonerated him of the crime, Lewis Fogle was convicted of raping and murdering a teenage girl and spent 34 years in prison. The world changed around him. His son grew up without a father.

In this statement — the fifth he’d given since the murder in 1976 — Elderkin said he had left the party he was at on the night of Kathy’s murder Jim Fogle and his brother Dennis Fogle. Elderkin said the Fogle brothers raped Kathy in the woods, and …

2024年3月5日 · The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania cut a $13 million dollar settlement check in November to Lewis James Fogle, a man wrongly convicted four decades ago of crimes against an Indiana County teenager. In 1982, a jury convicted Fogle for the 1976 rape and murder of a fifteen-year-old Indiana County girl.

2016年4月1日 · Upon his release from prison last year after serving 34 years for a crime he did not commit, Lewis “Jim” Fogle faced overwhelming challenges navigating the outside world, rebuilding relationships and recovering from the traumas of his experience.

2015年9月14日 · Fogle, who is now 64, endured the 34 years he wrongly spent in prison by expressing himself through his lifelong love of painting. He has completed hundreds of works of art with supplies purchased from his meager prison work compensation, some of which have even won local competitions.

2015年8月13日 · For 34 years, convicted murderer Lewis Jim Fogle told anyone who would listen that he was an innocent man. On Thursday, his plea for freedom was answered in an Indiana County courtroom when a...