A woman who served six years for a crime she says she didn’t commit is now free thanks to the Innocence Project.
Susan King was in prison for the 1998 death of Kyle Deenie Breeden of Shelbyville.
The Kentucky Innocence Project told the court when the state police case went cold, a state trooper picked it up and 18 days later named King as the killer. He said she threw Breeden’s body into the Kentucky River after a domestic dispute.
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In 2012, a Louisville police detective contacted the Innocence Project after Richard Jarrell confessed to the crime. According to a motion filed in court, a KSP detective tried to coerce Jarrell into taking back the confession.
“Unbelievable, because I’ve been let down so many times and treated so wrongly that it’s hard to believe to finally, maybe, the right thing has been done,” King said.
The Kentucky Innocence Project plans to push the case forward. The man who confessed to the crime still hasn’t been charged.
