Welcome to Murder Minute.

On today's episode, The Angel Maker of Brooke Street.

But first, your true crime headlines.

A wrongfully convicted man who served 23 years behind bars for a crime that he didn't commit will receive a settlement of 1.5 million dollars from the state of Kansas.

Lamont Macintyre was 17 years old when he was convicted of a 1994 double murder.

He received a sentence of life in prison, of which he served 8,583 days before being exonerated and released in October of 2017.

McIntyre was able to file suit against the state under its mistaken conviction statute, which was passed in 2018 and allows

the wrongfully convicted to seek monetary damages against the state.

McIntyre's is the third lawsuit of its kind to be resolved

under the statute and three more suits are pending. Since his release

McIntyre has co-founded a non-profit organization called Miracle of Innocence, which helps

others who are wrongly convicted.

He is also the co-owner and student instructor at Headlines Barber Academy in Kansas City.

In addition to his $1.5 million settlement, McIntyre will also receive two years of state health

benefits, counseling, and a tuition waiver for post-secondary

education and his conviction and arrest records were ordered to be expunged. In Iowa, prosecutors secured a conviction in the cold case

murder of Michelle Martinko, an 18-year-old high school senior who was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a Cedar Rapids shopping mall in 1979

police were able to identify a suspect in her murder thanks to genealogy, a technique being used to solve numerous cold cases through familial DNA matching. In this case, investigators found that DNA matched Jerry Lynn Burns who was arrested in December of 2018

exactly 39 years after the crime. Burns denied involvement in the case but could not explain why his blood was found on the victim at the time of her

murder. Burns was found guilty of first-degree murder and now faces a mandatory sentence

of life in prison.

Those are your true crime headlines. Up next, the Angel Maker of Brook Street,

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