“DNA frees North Carolina's longest-serving death row resident”

A pair of siblings who served decades behind bars in the rape and murder of a North Carolina girl will walk out of prison free men Wednesday after DNA evidence implicated someone else. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were just teenagers when they were arrested in 1983 and charged with the rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie in Red Springs, North Carolina. It was a cigarette butt that ultimately set them free. DNA found on a cigarette "matched another individual named Roscoe Artis, a convicted rapist and murderer who lived less than 100 yards from where the victim's body was originally found," said a statement. Artis is already serving a life sentence in a North Carolina prison on a separate conviction. It was not immediately clear Tuesday whether prosecutors would bring charges against him for Buie's murder. McCollum (50) and Brown (46), will walk out of prison today free men.

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