- Floyd Bledsoe, wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years, says he was ‘framed,’ files lawsuit against Kansas justice officials
- 09:34 a.m., May 10, 2016 Updated 05:36 p.m.
- A federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday by Floyd Bledsoe, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years for rape and murder, accuses the Jefferson County prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies and three former KBI agents of conspiring to frame him.
- Wrongfully convicted Floyd Bledsoe seeks videotaped interrogations in Kansas
- 08:08 a.m., February 12, 2016 Updated 11:01 a.m.
- A Kansas man who spent nearly 16 years in prison for a killing his brother later admitted to testified for a measure that would require law enforcement to record some interrogations.
- ‘Who are you going to tell?’ — Floyd Bledsoe, wrongfully convicted of murder, discusses pain of prison, journey to forgiveness
- December 30, 2015
- During the 15 years that Floyd Bledsoe was wrongfully imprisoned, he had plenty of time to think about the murder of 14-year-old Zetta “Camille” Arfmann. Who really did it? Was it his brother, Tom Bledsoe, who initially confessed in 1999 and then recanted? Did the killer act alone? There was one name, however, that he never considered.
- Original suspect in girl’s murder dies of apparent suicide as case about to be revisited
- November 13, 2015
- Just one month before a hearing that could overturn his brother’s 2000 murder conviction, a McLouth man who thrice confessed to the crime was found dead Monday — and all signs point to suicide.
- Objection to DNA testing not likely
- July 8, 2012
- The Jefferson County Attorney’s Office has located several pieces of evidence that could be tested for DNA in the 1999 murder case of Oskaloosa teen Zetta “Camille” Arfmann.
- Motion seeks DNA testing in 1999 murder of teen
- June 20, 2012
- After more than a decade of failed legal battles, a motion to test DNA evidence in the 1999 shooting death of an Oskaloosa teenager has given convicted murderer Floyd Bledsoe and his attorneys new hope.
- Further appeals limited in Bledsoe case
- Convicted murderer has maintained innocence
- September 30, 2009
- Convicted murderer Floyd Bledsoe’s appeals have traveled through the Kansas and federal courts for the past 10 years.
- Floyd Bledsoe, sentenced to life for murder of teen sister-in-law, set free; ineffective assistance of counsel cited
- 03:31 p.m., October 7, 2008 Updated 09:27 a.m.
- A man who had been sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 slaying of his 14-year-old sister-in-law near Oskaloosa has been freed by a federal court order.
- Court upholds murder conviction
- February 3, 2007
- The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the conviction of Floyd Scott Bledsoe, who had been sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 slaying of his 14-year-old sister-in-law near Oskaloosa.
- Murder conviction is upheld
- February 2, 2002
- By Scott Rothschild The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the conviction of a man sentenced to life in prison in the 1999 slaying of his 14-year-old sister-in-law near Oskaloosa.
- Attorneys appeal conviction of teen-ager’s murderer
- December 5, 2001
- Kansas Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday in the appeal of a Jefferson County murder conviction.
- Oskaloosa murder case to be heard
- December 2, 2001
- Four men convicted of first-degree murder are set to have their cases argued before the Kansas Supreme Court.
- State to answer Bledsoe’s petition
- June 29, 2001
- The Jefferson County attorney says he’s nearly ready to answer a petition by Floyd Bledsoe Jr., who is challenging his conviction for the 1999 murder of a teen-age girl in Jefferson County.
- Bledsoe gets life
- Oskaloosan claims innocence at sentencing
- July 15, 2000
- Floyd S. Bledsoe finally spoke Friday. In the minutes before he was given a life sentence for murdering his 14-year-old sister-in-law, Bledsoe silent through months of hearings and an April trial asserted his innocence in a rambling speech. “First of all, I’d like to say I didn’t do it,” he said.
- Victim’s family unsure justice was served
- July 15, 2000
- Tommie Sue Arfmann is sure Floyd S. Bledsoe killed her young daughter. Her other daughters have their doubts. The Arfmann family is like the rest of this small town — there are about as many opinions as to how 14-year-old Camille Arfmann died as there are people to ask.
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