Victim recants ID that put man in prison for mother’s murder in St. Louis in 1982

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ST. LOUIS • A hair match and the memory of a traumatized 7-year-old girl put Rodney Lincoln away for two life sentences plus 15 years after a brutal attack three decades ago that left the child and her sister critically injured and their mother dead.

The faulty hair analysis was disproved years ago. Other physical evidence, since tested, failed to tie Lincoln to the crime.

But prosecutors never stopped believing the testimony of the girl, who watched the horror unfold in the early morning hours of April 27, 1982, at the family’s Farrar Street apartment.

She is now grown up. And in recent days, she said she realized her memory was wrong. Read More »