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Edward Honaker
Nelson County, VA
After serving 10 years of two life sentences for a 1984 Blue Ridge Mountain, VA, kidnapping and rape, Edward Honaker was granted an unconditional pardon by Virginia's Governor George Allen and freed on October 21, 1994. Centurion Ministries' investigation and DNA testing proved that despite two erroneous eyewitness identifications, Honaker was innocent. In addition to Centurion Ministries, the DA's office also urged the Governor to pardon Honaker. This case was featured in Discovery Channel’s Science Detectives in 1998.
Ed and his family are doing well and live in Virginia.
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Wrongly Imprisoned Va. Man is Freed
By Peter Baker
The Washington Post
October 22, 1994
