Two Brooklyn men freed after two decades in prison on wrongful conviction
Two men wrongly convicted for a triple murder have been freed after spending more than two decades in prison. Anthony Yarbough and Sharrif Wilson were released Thursday after a Brooklyn judge overturned their convictions based on new DNA evidence. They were accused of killing Yarbough’s mother, Annie, his 12-year-old sister and another girl in 1992.
The victims were found strangled in their Coney Island home, which authorities said was a crack den.
Convicted of the murders in 1992, DNA evidence under the fingernails of one victim was found on another dead body, killed in 1999. It was clear to the defense, prosecution and the judge that the DNA evidence discovered in a 1999 murder was evidence that the same person who committed the crimes in 1992 killed again in 1999.