A Missouri woman who spent 43 years in prison after incriminating herself in a 1980 murder while she was a psychiatric patient has been freed from prison despite attempts in the last month by ...

Sandra Hemme was freed in July while the decision to overturn her conviction was reviewed -- at the insistence of Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who argued she should remain imprisoned.

The first thing Sandra “Sandy” Hemme did after walking out of prison in July 2024 — after spending 43 years behind bars — was visit her father. He was in the hospital battling kidney failure. Ten days ...

Sandra Hemme was greeted by family in June following her release from prison after 43 years. In June, a judge overturned Hemme’s conviction for the 1980 murder of a librarian from St. Joseph ...

Monday’s ruling by a panel of appeals court judges comes after a judge ruled that Sandra Hemme’s attorneys had established “clear and convincing evidence” of “actual innocence.” ...

Sandra Hemme had been the longest-held wrongly incarcerated woman known in the U.S., according to her legal team at the Innocence Project. Missouri's top prosecutor has now lost his latest effort ...

Judge Ryan Horsman ruled late Friday that Sandra Hemme, who has spent 43 years behind bars, had established evidence of actual innocence and must be freed within 30 days unless prosecutors retry her.

Hemme was linked to the murder two weeks later when she arrived at the home of her former nurse wielding a knife. Initially refusing to leave, she was later returned to St Joseph’s State ...

Sandra 'Sandy' Hemme, 63, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment after the slaying of 31-year-old Patricia Jeschke in 1980, but will now be released or retried within the next 30 days.

Sandra Hemme, 64, left a prison in Chillicothe, hours after a judge threatened to hold the attorney general’s office in contempt if they continued to fight against her release. She reunited with ...

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