On December 29, 1991, the body of a 36-year-old bartender was found nude in the men's

restroom of her bar in Phoenix, Arizona.

She had been assaulted and fatally stabbed.

No seam in was found, however, would appear to be bite marks were on her neck and breast

along with saliva.

With DNA testing still in its infancy, serology tests could only show that both the blood

and saliva at the scene matched the victim's blood type.

One witness implied that the victim may have been dating a 34-year-old bar regular

named Ray Cron, who the victim allegedly had mentioned was supposed to help her close

up that night.

But since Ray had been at home with his roommate at the time of the crime, he had nothing

to hide, fully cooperating with investigators and eventually giving a blood sample and

an impression of his teeth.

With the limitations of the serology in this case, the notorious junk signs of bite mark

analysis became the sole evidence against Ray.

The judge's denial of a continuance for the defense to prepare to refute this evidence

made a path for a second trial, but not before Ray was convicted and sentenced to death.

At the second trial, with the salivary DNA evidence excluding Ray, he was still reconvicted.

But this time the judge sentenced Ray to life while voicing his obvious doubts.

In 2002, further DNA testing both excluded Ray as well as identified a convicted child

from a Western and Kenneth Phillips as the actual killer.

Within days, Ray Cron became the 100th former death throw in and made free based on actual

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