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Clarence Elkins (Clarence Arnold Elkins) was born on 19 January, 1963, is an American wrongfully convicted for murder and rape. Discover Clarence Elkins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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Who Is Clarence Elkins's Husband?
Her husband is Melinda Elkins Dawson (1981–2007)
Molly Elkins (2010–present)
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Clarence Elkins Net Worth
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Clarence Arnold Elkins Sr. (born January 19, 1963) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted of the 1998 rape and murder of his mother-in-law, Judith Johnson, and the rape and assault of his wife's niece, Brooke Sutton.
He was convicted solely on the basis of the testimony of his wife's six-year-old niece who testified that Elkins was the perpetrator.
Brooke later voiced doubts about her identification, claiming that in her initial statement when she said "He looked like uncle Clarence", she simply meant that he reminded her of Elkins as opposed to being a positive identification and that she only identified him in her testimony at the urging of Summit County Prosecutor Maureen O'Connor (Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court until 2022) and the main courtroom prosecutor, Michael Carroll.
Brooke recanted her statement and Elkins appealed on that basis, but his appeal was denied.
The family gathered funding to test DNA found at the scene and he was excluded.
Once again, his appeal was denied.
The judge ruled that because the jury convicted Elkins without the DNA results, it was likely that he would have been convicted even if the DNA did not match.
Elkins' wife, Melinda, conducted her own investigation.
She eventually identified Johnson's next door neighbor, Earl Mann, a convicted sex offender, as a likely suspect.
Elkins collected a cigarette end from Mann, who was serving time at the same prison, and provided it to his defense attorney for testing.
Mann's DNA from the cigarette end was found to be a match to the DNA found at the crime scene.
Elkins was exonerated after serving 6.5 years in prison.
Elkins now works as an advocate to halt wrongful convictions and was instrumental in getting Ohio to pass Senate Bill 77, also known as Ohio's Innocence Protection Act.
This bill contains provisions requiring the police to follow best practices for eyewitness identifications, provides incentives for the videotaping of interrogations, and requires that DNA be preserved in homicide and sexual assault cases.
In the early morning hours of June 7, 1998, Clarence Elkins' mother-in-law, 58-year-old Judy Johnson, and his wife's six-year-old niece, Brooke Sutton, were brutally attacked by an intruder in Johnson's home in Barberton, Ohio.
Johnson had been asleep on her living room couch when she was attacked.
She was raped, stabbed, and beaten so severely that her nose, jaw, collarbone and skull were all fractured in the assault.
Her cause of death was determined to be strangulation.
Brooke, who was sleeping in her grandmother's bed, was awakened by the noise.
She recalls: "I got out of bed and I went to the kitchen and I looked and I seen that there was a guy in the kitchen, but it scared me, so I ran back to the bedroom."
She hid under the covers pretending to be asleep.
The intruder entered the bedroom and struck Brooke in the face, knocking her unconscious.
She was also beaten, raped, strangled, and suffered a small cut to her throat, but survived without any memory of the attack.
She regained consciousness several hours later—around 7:00 a.m. —and telephoned a neighbor, leaving a message on their answering machine:
I'm sorry to tell you this, but my grandma died and I need somebody to get my mom for me.
Somebody killed my grandma.
Now please, would you get ahold of me as soon as you can.
Brooke then walked to a neighbor's house, the home of Earl Mann's common-law-wife Tonia Brasiel, and knocked on the door.
Brasiel came to the door, told the nightgown-clad, bruised and bloody child she was cooking breakfast for her children and told her to wait on the porch until she could drive her home, which she did approximately 45 minutes later.
When the police questioned Brooke, she said that the killer "looked like Uncle Clarence"—Mrs.
Johnson's 35-year-old son-in-law, Clarence Elkins.
The police interpreted this to mean Elkins himself was the attacker.
Brasiel also reported to Brooke's mother that Brooke had identified Elkins as the attacker.
Years later, Brooke said she had grave doubts about the identification at the time but went along with it.
A 2009 documentary was made about the case titled Conviction: The True Story of Clarence Elkins.
He was also featured on Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen in 2017.
Also in 2017, Fox 8 Cleveland covered Elkins' trip to Chicago, where a procedure called "Stellate ganglion block" was performed on both him and his wife Molly, by Dr. Eugene Lipov.
This procedure was done in order to reduce symptoms of PTSD.