Exonerated 2001
Charles Irvin Fain
- Year
- 2001
- Where
- Idaho
- Source
- Innocence Project
- Evidence
- 1
What the record says
In 1983, Charles Irvin Fain was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, rape, and kidnapping of a young girl.
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