A man has been released from a Kansas prison after serving 17 years for a crime he didn’t commit, after his lookalike was found.
Richard Anthony Jones was sentenced to 19 years for a 1999 aggravated robbery he has always maintained he didn’t commit.
Jones was found guilty of the robbery in a Walmart based on eyewitness evidence. There was no physical or DNA evidence linking him to the crime.
Jones tried to have his conviction appealed but each effort was denied.
Other inmates told him about a prisoner named Ricky who they said looked exactly like him and in 2015, Jones told the Midwest Innocence Project about his doppelganger, Ricky.
Ricky is pictured on the left, and Richard is pictured on the right in the picture above.