Finally Free after 43 Years!

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition

Kevin Strickland Exonerated

Freed from prison after 43 years, wrongly-convicted Kevin Strickland managed a smile as he talked to reporters outside the Cameron Mo. prison. Courtesy photo
Freed from prison after 43 years, wrongly-convicted Kevin Strickland managed a smile as he talked to reporters outside the Cameron Mo. prison. Courtesy photo

Sixty-two-year-old Kevin Strickland on Tuesday was exonerated after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder that occurred in Kansas City, Mo. in 1978. Interviewed following his release, Strickland who is now in a wheelchair, told reporters who were on hand outside the Cameron, Mo. prison that he heard about his release as he was inside the prison watching a soap opera on television when a break…