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Chattanooga, Tennessee, 16th January 2009: I came home and my husband’s tied up. He’s not breathing. Help me! Accused: Guilty or Innocent? s1e2: Cold Case Killer or Innocent Teenage Girl? 911 call, ITVX 2022
The case went cold until ten years later. ibid. caption
Police found 68-year-old Franklin Bonner’s body. His home was ransacked and Bonner had ducktape over his mouth and nose which caused him to suffocate. ibid. news
Angel Bumpass was a child at the time of the murder. The court has decided she will be tried as an adult. ibid. caption
The defense team is exploring how Angel’s fingerprints could have got on the duct-tape. ibid.
You have nine unidentified fingerprints. ibid. defense
Mallory Vaughn not guilty; the defendant guilty of first-degree murder … Angel is sentenced to 60 years in prison. ibid.
Angel got 60 years. Now she fights back. In 2019 Accused: Guilty or Innocent? followed the story of Angel Bumpass. Accusation: Guilty or Innocent? s4e8: After the Verdict
She was only 13 years old. There’s no way she could have overpowered a grown man. ibid. defence brief
9 other fingerprints were found at the scene. They didn’t belong to Mr Vaughn, didn’t belong to Ms Bumpass. ibid.
I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t rob anybody. I don’t deserve this. ibid. Bumpass
Angel has not seen her two daughters since going to prison. They are now 7 and 8 years old and live with their father in Kentucky. ibid. caption
It is estimated that around 3,300 people in US prisons have been wrongly convicted of murder. ibid.
I do not believe she committed this crime. ibid. New defence brief
The Defense is reviewing the errors it believes occurred at Angel’s original trial. ibid. caption
We have an order granting a motion for a new trial. ibid. new defence brief
The Defence is working on a strategy for Angel’s new trial. Angel was 13 years old at the time of the murder. Accused: Guilty or Innocent? s5e11: After the Verdict: Angel’s Second Chance
How do we prove Angel wasn’t there when her fingerprints were [on duct tape]? ibid. brief
Recent academic research shows that modern polygraphs have been significantly enhanced by computer technology. ibid.
She said it for years, and now we’ve got the proof to back it up. ibid.
The results of the second [police] polygraph test have been sent to the District Attorney. ibid.
Sometimes, as you said, a conviction is not justice … I will grant motions to dismiss counts one and two, and this matter will be dmismissed. ibid. judge
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge dismissed the case against a woman who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in the slaying of a man who was bound with duct tape and robbed when she was 13 years old.
Hamilton County Judge Amanda Dunn on Tuesday dismissed the first-degree murder and aggravated robbery convictions of Angel Bumpass, 28, news outlets reported.
Bumpass was 24 when she was convicted in 2019 in the slaying of Franklin Bonner, 68. A medical examiner determined he suffocated after being bound to a kitchen table with duct tape covering his feet, arms, nose and mouth in 2009. AP news article 9th August 2023, ‘A Tennessee judge throws out the case of a woman convicted of murder committed when she was 13’