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To say everyone was stunned is an understatement—including Wilson’s family and Searcy, who refused to believe that the Beatrice Six might have been erroneously convicted for the slaying.
The Beatrice Six, top row, from left ... The police investigation was driven by trying to find a suspect with Type B blood, which was found on Wilson’s bedding and clothing.
Airing every Monday at 10 p.m. EDT from July 20, the six-part series explores the case of the "Beatrice Six," a group ... However, when Type B blood was found at the crime scene that did not ...
The Beatrice Six, top row ... The other was Type B blood, which presumably came from the killer. Of the six people arrested four years later, only Kathy Gonzalez had Type B blood.
BEATRICE — More than three years ago, attorneys for six people wrongly convicted of killing a Beatrice woman offered to settle a federal civil rights suit against Gage County for ...
A new HBO original series examines why five out of six suspects confessed to killing a beloved grandmother, even though DNA would clear them all years later. The 1985 murder of 68-year-old Helen ...
"There's a mixed reaction," said Lincoln attorney Richard Schmeling, who represented James Dean, one of the Beatrice Six, and will be featured later in the documentary. "… I think the people who ...
Thanks to DNA evidence, the six convicted of the crime in 1989 were exonerated in 2008, and in March of 2023, Gage County completed its payoff to the Beatrice Six (or their estates)-- a total ...