For almost 40 years, no one doubted serial rapist Ronald Stewart murdered Regina Harrison in a South Florida park -- not police, not prosecutors and not her family.
He pleaded guilty in Fort Lauderdale to three rapes, was convicted of other attacks in Mississippi and when accused of Harrison's 1983 slaying, he pleaded no contest to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison, where he died of cancer in 2008, never disputing he killed Harrison, a 20-year-old college student.
The sister forwarded the letter last year and DNA testing confirmed Jones, not Stewart, killed Harrison at a Hollywood, Florida, park. Prosecutors say confessions, identifications and other evidence show Stewart did commit the rapes and that those sentences would not have allowed his release before his death.
"If this did not involve my family personally, this would be a fascinating episode of 'CSI,"' he said. "But it doesn't make Stewart any less evil and it certainly doesn't make him any less dead. And Jones has already been executed ... and we can only execute people once." Stewart was indicted and the plea deal closing the case finalized. He went to Mississippi to serve his sentence, where he stayed until he was sent to Florida a year before his death.
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