After new DNA evidence helped identify the real killer of four girls in an Austin yogurt shop, four men who were wrongfully accused of the crimes have been exonerated.
In this struggle, Fabienne Witherspoon said she managed to get the knife away from Sells and stabbed him repeatedly.
"I think I've been destroyed," Kevin Strickland said of life behind bars.
With the Houston native being found "actually innocent" for murder, his advocates say bids like his could take a decade or longer.
The Houston man can apply for state compensation for each year of his wrongful imprisonment, totalling more $640,000.
Carol Dodge's pursuit led to justice 25 years after the grisly rape and murder of her daughter Angie.