Ray Krone is photographed while he is interviewed before participating in a panel discussion on Thursday, Apr. 14, 2016, in Cleveland, Tenn. Krone, who was the 100th death row prisoner to be exonerated before his execution, was part of a panel discussion sponsored by Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty. Ray Krone was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit.
On Dec. 29, 1991, police in Phoenix found bartender Kim Ancona stabbed to death in the men’s bathroom at the bar where she worked, naked except for her socks and with bite marks on her chest and neck.
Krone, an Air Force veteran and U.S. Postal Service worker with no criminal record, hung out at that bar. Someone there told police that Ancona was romantically interested in Krone, and soon investigators knocked on his door, saying he was her boyfriend.
Krone told them he barely knew the woman. They weren’t dating, and he definitely didn’t kill her.
But two days later, they took him to jail.