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TIL Susan King, a 97-pound amputee, was pressured into pleading no contest to murdering a man and throwing his body off a bridge, a scenario the Kentucky Innocence Project later concluded was “physically impossible”. She was released after 6 years in prison, when another man confessed to the crime.

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