Science Committee Member Allison Redlich quoted in article, Tyler’s stolen youth: Compensating the wrongly convicted

Oct 02, 2019

Tyler Edmonds still remembers every detail of the cell he was put in almost 17 years ago – moments after confessing to a crime he didn’t commit.

“I can still remember the way that room smelled,” he tells Al Jazeera, “urine and a lot of bleach.”

Following an interrogation in a Mississippi sheriff’s office, Edmonds told investigators that he and his half-sister, Kristi Fulgham, who is 12 years older, had pulled the trigger together on the gun that killed Kristi’s husband, Joey Fulgham.

Edmonds was 13 years old.Read more.

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