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TIL that in 1997, Julie Rea Harper scuffled with a man in her home who had broken in and killed her son. She was initially tried and convicted of the murder, but after a later apprehension, serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells admitted to Harper's account and his guilt, resulting in Harper's exoneration.

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