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Over the years, Williams learned more about the case through Washington’s attorneys than from local law enforcement. “I learned to hate this man so bad, I prayed for a time where I could get my hands on him,” Williams said. “And then I start finding out all this other information about other stuff going on, all these sealed documents they decided to open.”
A “Frontline” TV special in 2000 revealed Washington’s case to the national media and intensified the pressure for more DNA testing. This time, the tests were conclusive. Washington received an absolute pardon - but not an apology - from Gov. James Gilmore. He left prison in 2001 and resettled in Virginia Beach. He had been behind bars for 18 years.
Years later, the case bom in Culpeper’s backyard has changed the Virginia justice system. DNA testing is more readily available, and an independent audit inspired by the case has called attention to a flawed state forensic lab.
“This case has invigorated me,” Washington’s attorney Barry Weinstein said. “It’s given me much more of a sense that things do change. Maybe in the end, that justice will truly be done, and there will be closure.”
The audit also brought authorities to Tinsley, a serial rapist serving a life sentence in Sussex II Prison for a 1984 rape in Albemarle County. Court
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