Someone else’s confession got Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin off death row. Now, he faces trial for his life — again
For nearly 15 years, Honduran immigrant Clemente Javier Aguirre-Jarquin has sat behind bars for the brutal murders of his next-door neighbors, Cheryl Williams and her mother Carol Bareis — killings he says he did not commit. The case against Aguirre-Jarquin appears straightforward: His clothes were soaked with the victims’ blood, his bloody shoe prints were found throughout the scene, he had previously been in their home without permission and he admitted to stuffing his bloody clothes in a plastic bag and trying to hide them. The knife used to kill the victims was the same kind used at the restaurant where Aguirre-Jarquin worked.
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