Sarah Jo Pender

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Sarah Jo Pender (born May 29, 1979) is an American woman convicted along with her former boyfriend, Richard Edward Hull, of murdering their roommates, Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman, on October 24, 2000, in Indiana. She has claimed ever since that she is victim of a wrongful conviction. She came to national attention in August 2008 after she escaped from the Rockville Correctional Facility and was featured on America's Most Wanted. She was recaptured by police in December at a house in Chicago. Since spring of 2023, a team out of Georgetown University's "Making an Exoneree" program has been working to exonerate Pender. In January 2026, Pender's appeal was denied, with her earliest possible release date occurring in 2054 when she would be 75 years old.

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