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Eighteen-year-old Jessica Currin was found burned behind a Mayfield, Ky., middle school in August 2000, sparking a yearslong investigation that divided her hometown

Prosecutors claimed a black, braided belt found at the scene was used to strangle Jessica, and they claimed the belt belonged to Quincy Cross. But medical examiners could not confirm strangulation, and no forensic evidence ever tied the belt to him

With her father, Joe Currin, now publicly calling for a new hearing and the Kentucky Innocence Project joining Cross’s defense, the case is again the subject of scrutiny ahead of a key October court date

Twenty-five years after 18-year-old Jessica Currin was killed and burned behind a Kentucky school, the man convicted of her murder still maintains his innocence — an

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