Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest Nickels Thom
Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest Nickels Thom When the body of a young female jogger was found at the bottom of a stairwell near Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in the early…
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Death in Philadelphia: The Murder of Kimberly Ernest Nickels Thom
When the body of a young female jogger was found at the bottom of a stairwell near Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in the early morning hours of November 2, 1995, the brutality of the crime shocked the city and led to an outpouring of grief that caused the mayor to weep publicly. Yet nothing in this case was what it seemed to be. The victim, who came from a prominent Illinois family, had been attacked by two petty car thieves with a history of terrorizing local residents.
DNA evidence not compatible with the killers' profiles led the sequestered jury (in a rush to go home) to declare a not guilty verdict. The suspects claimed that their signed confessions were forced by police officers in a hurry to prosecute. When a rogue attorney eager for publicity entered the picture and presented "evidence" that the killer of the jogger was really the son of a prominent city lawyer, the new