MINNEAPOLIS — For more than 27 years, Bryan Hooper, Sr., has been in prison. He was convicted in 1998 for murdering 77-year-old Ann Prazniak and stuffing her body in a box.

New evidence, though, has overturned that decision.

"For 27 years, my father was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime that he did not commit," Hoopers daughter, Brianna, said during a press conference at the Hennepin County Government Center Monday afternoon.

"For 10,000 days, I've cried. I've been scared. I've been worried."

Earlier this year , the key trial witness all those years ago came forward not only to recant her testimony against Hooper, but to confess to killing Prazniak and hiding her body. Chalaka Lewis, who now goes by Chalaka Young, told jurors during the trial that Hooper asked her to be a lookout on t

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