Black Man Who Spent 16 Years In Prison After Giving False Confession In Murder of New York Millionaire Is Vindicated As DA Announces New Suspects [Video]

Prosecutors in Westchester County, just north of New York City, announced the identification of two new suspects in the 1996 double murder of an upstate millionaire and his home health aide — a case that has endured through five trials, an overturned conviction, and decades of unanswered questions — while the wrong man spent more than a decade in prison.

Westchester District Attorney Miriam Rocah did not name the suspects but said they are believed to have targeted Archie Harris, a millionaire with a $2 million estate, in a brutal attack inside Harris’ Eastchester mansion nearly three decades ago. 

Rocah stated that the motives of the suspects and any connection to the victims are still under investigation while firmly asserting the innocence of Selwyn Days, the man previously …