A northwest Missouri woman who was imprisoned for 43 years for a crime that she did not commit is now suing the St. Joseph Police Department. Alisa Nelson talks to one of the attorneys for Sandra Hemme.
A northwest Missouri woman who spent more than four decades in prison for a murder she did not commit is now suing the city of St. Joseph and several former police officers over her arrest in December of 1980. Sandra Hemme, 65, was released last year after serving 43...
An attorney who worked to free Sandra Hemme of a 1980 St. Joseph murder conviction said Hemme looks forward to celebrating Christmas at home for the first time in 43 years. Six months after Livingston County Circuit Judge Ryan Horsman found Hemme innocent and ordered...
A judge in southwest Missouri’s Greene County has held the acting Director of the state Department of Corrections in contempt of court for not releasing an elderly prison inmate whose conviction was overturned. Howard Roberts, 82, was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
A woman who has been locked up for 43 years may soon be released from a Missouri prison. The Missouri Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Attorney General Andrew Bailey to keep Sandra Hemme in prison. She was sentenced to life in prison for the 1980 murder of a...
