INDIANAPOLIS — Jason Hubbell has always maintained he didn’t kill Sharon Myers in May of 1997 and instead investigators should have taken a harder look at Michael Dean Overstreet, who was convicted of killing Kelly Eckart, a Franklin College coed, a few months later.
Doing his own homework in the law library at the Pendleton Correction Institute where he’s serving a 75-year sentence for Myers’ murder, Hubbell told the Court that he’s come up with evidence linking Overstreet to Myers. The similarities between the Myers and the Eckart murders are striking. Significant original police documents are missing, prosecutors never gave his attorneys all their investigative files, and on the day of the Myers killing, Overstreet’s wife told police her husband came home covered with blood.
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