More than 30 years after a woman was murdered in Broward County, prosecutors say new DNA testing implicates a man who was found not guilty in the killing. Robert Earl Hayes went to trial twice on a first-degree murder charge in the Feb. 20, 1990, killing of Pamela Albertson, a horse groomer at the Pompano Beach race track. The first…
Prosecutors said Hayes had worked on the race track circuit, was seen with Albertson just before she died, and had been the person who"discovered" Dickenson’s body.
According to Pryor, the Innocence Project of New York contacted his office's Conviction Review Unit in late 2020 requesting assistance in reviewing a claim of innocence involving Hayes’ conviction in the New York murder. As for the DNA from the murder scene, test results provided"very strong evidence" that they came from Hayes, Pryor said.
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