Jeschke's earrings were found in his apartment and the officer's colleagues could not corroborate his alibi - that he was having sex with another woman at a motel next to Jeschke's apartment when she was killed. Shortly after Jeschke was found dead, the officer used her credit card. Joseph police officer who was investigated for insurance fraud and burglaries and later spent time in prison in Missouri and Nebraska. The Innocence Project says state officials withheld evidence during the trial that would have implicated a 22-year-old St.

She was then found guilty in 1985 during a one-day jury trial in which the only evidence was her “confession.” Hemme initially pleaded guilty to capital murder, but her conviction was thrown out on appeal. The attorney general’s office said Hemme’s attorneys have “alleged facts that if true may entitle her to relief.” I don’t know,' according to her attorneys. Joseph, Hemme told authorities she thought she stabbed the victim with a knife but then added “I don’t know. Two weeks after Jeschke's nude body was found on the floor of her apartment in eastern St.

She initially didn't mention a murder, then claimed Jeschke was killed by a man who police later determined was in Topeka at the time, and then later said she knew about the murder because of “extrasensory perception,” according to her attorneys.

Joseph State Hospital’s psychiatric ward. Her attorneys say the only evidence linking Hemme to Jeschke's death were “wildly contradictory” and “factually impossible” statements she gave to detectives while she was a patient at the St. In a response filed last week, the attorney general’s office asked Circuit Judge Ryan Horsman to require lawyers involved in the case to be ready to set a date for the evidentiary hearing when they meet on July 10. Lawyers for the Innocence Project filed a petition in February seeking to exonerate and free Hemme, who was a patient at a psychiatric hospital when she gave conflicting statements about the murder to investigators.

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