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case, despite her analysis determining that none of the defendants on trial were a specific match to blood or semen found at the scene. In 2008, DNA evidence implicated Bruce Allen Smith, an original prime suspect in the murder who had died in 1992, and all of the
Beatrice Six were exonerated the following year.
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Gage County had to raise property taxes to the maximum amount permitted under the law in order to pay the jury award. It was expected that the county would make payments twice a year after property taxes were collected; the
Beatrice Six, including the heirs of White, received their first payment in
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Most of the defendants were persuaded by the police psychologist, Wayne Price, that they had repressed memories of the crime. White, who maintained his innocence, demanded the examination of DNA evidence that led to their exoneration and then filed a
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June 2019. The payments were completed in the span of four years, with the final payment occurring in March 2023 and the tax increases expiring in
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