Lamar Johnson meets pen pal after nearly three decades wrongly in jail – video report

For nearly three decades, Ginny Schrappen exchanged letters with a man imprisoned for a murder that he has always said he did not commit. Lamar Johnson's conviction was overturned by a judge in Missouri earlier this year after evidence surfaced that the killer was someone else - and now the pen pals have met for the first time. Johnson had been convicted of killing of Marcus Boyd, who was shot dead on his front porch by two masked men in 1994. Police and prosecutors said Johnson gunned down Boyd during a dispute over drug money, ignoring his pleas of innocence and insistence that he was with his girlfriend miles away when the killing occurred

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