Rhonda King was a 24-year-old African American woman who was killed in Chicago on December 21, 1994. Her death became tied to two separate killers during the mid-1990s prosecutions of murders in the Englewood neighborhood.

Hubert Geralds Jr. was originally convicted of King’s murder after he confessed and was sentenced to death in 1997. In 2000 prosecutors vacated Geralds’ conviction for King’s killing after another serial killer, Andre Crawford, gave a videotaped confession admitting to King’s murder. Crawford had been charged with multiple counts of murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault and confessed to a pattern of luring vulnerable women with promises of drugs before attacking them and committing sexual assaults, including post-mortem sexual assault.

No DNA evidence was available to corroborate Crawford’s confession to King’s murder, and questions about the reliability of confessions played a central role in the case’s legal history.