More than seven years after DNA testing freed two men from prison, clearing them in the 1994 slaying of Antwinica Bridgeman, prosecutors have not filed new charges in the case despite a genetic match between semen found on her underwear and a man who lived nearby.

Last week, a federal judge’s opinion on the two men’s civil lawsuits against city and county authorities revealed previously unreported details about the man, including his name — Clarence Neal — and that he had pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in 2001 as well as being “implicated in several other rapes.”

Judge Martha Pacold’s opinion also disclosed that the Cook County state’s attorney’s office sent investigators in 2017 to interview Neal. The opinion describes how Neal made several conflicting statements when the

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