Ray Krone

Common card · No. 464586

Ray Krone (born January 19, 1957) is an American who was wrongfully convicted of murder. He was the 100th inmate exonerated from death row since the death penalty in the United States was reinstated in 1976. Krone was born and raised in Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania and graduated from Dover Area High School in 1974. He was labeled the "Snaggletooth Killer" and spent 10 years in prison, including two years on death row, after being found guilty of killing a bartender in Phoenix, Arizona in 1991.Krone was convicted in 1992 following a trial in which bite-mark identification was a central part of the prosecution's evidence. The Arizona Supreme Court reversed his convictions in 1995 because of the late disclosure of a forensic videotape and ordered a new trial. He was convicted again in 1996 before DNA testing led to his exoneration in 2002. On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison after DNA evidence proved that he did not murder the victim and identified the killer: Kenneth...

Read on Wikipedia