Charles McCrory had the chance to walk out of prison after 40 years. He didn’t take it.

All McCrory had to do, after being behind bars for the majority of his life, was admit he killed his wife back on that early morning so many years ago.

“I’m not going to plead guilty to something I didn’t do,” McCrory told AL.com.

McCrory was 26 when, in May 1985, his wife was brutally murdered in their south Alabama home. Julie Bonds McCrory was beaten to death and stabbed, their toddler son just feet away in another room when her body was discovered. The front door was slightly ajar and there was a footprint at the back fence, but police zeroed in on Charles almost immediately.

Two small marks on Julie’s arm were quickly deemed to be bite marks. And in an unusual prosecution in the small town tha

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