| Kenneth York | Incident Date: 6/4/93 Jurisdiction: MO Charge: Forcible rape, armed criminal action Conviction: Forcible rape, armed criminal action Sentence: Life without parole |
Year of Conviction: 1994 Exoneration Date: 4/19/10 Sentence Served: 15.5 Years Real perpetrator found? Not Yet Contributing Causes: Eyewitness Misidentification Compensation? Not Yet |
On June 4, 1993, a 66 year-old widow was raped at knifepoint in her
home in Walker, Missouri. Around the time of the incident, two of the
widow’s neighbors had followed a man as he drove suspiciously away
from their neighborhood and then reported the suspicious driving to
the police. Kenneth York was suspected and was later arrested and
charged for the rape based on the following evidence: York was a
convicted rapist; the victim’s neighbors identified York in a photo
lineup as the man they saw driving suspiciously; the victim herself
identified York in a photo-lineup (after identifying a different man
in an earlier photo-lineup); and the neighbor’s description of the
suspicious car matched the victim’s description of the car driven by
York’s aunt, was the victim’s newspaper delivery woman.
| Kenneth York | Incident Date: 6/4/93 Jurisdiction: MO Charge: Forcible rape, armed criminal action Conviction: Forcible rape, armed criminal action Sentence: Life without parole |
Year of Conviction: 1994 Exoneration Date: 4/19/10 Sentence Served: 15.5 Years Real perpetrator found? Not Yet Contributing Causes: Eyewitness Misidentification Compensation? Not Yet |










