Mary Edwards, a 41-year-old Black woman from Los Angeles, was found strangled and partially nude in December 1992 on the 9700 block of South Figueroa Street in South Los Angeles. The neighborhood had experienced multiple violent crimes in that era.

Local police initially arrested 28-year-old David Allen Jones, a part-time janitor, who confessed during police interrogation without counsel and was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to 36 years to life. Years later, DNA retesting linked evidence from Mary’s murder scene to Chester Turner, a convicted serial killer. Turner was later charged and, in 2014, convicted in connection with Edwards’s death and received another death sentence.

The case has raised significant questions about coerced confessions and the reliability of convictions that affected people like David Jones. Does anyone have details about the 1992 investigation or the evidence that tied the different cases together?