He spent 12 years in prison for the murder he committed, died of serious illness as soon as he was released

Olive Peter Coones Jr, 64, passed away in Kansas City because of cancer. The disease, said his lawyers from the Midwest Independence Project, was not diagnosed and had remained untreated while he was in prison.

At this age, he entered the free world again with a broken body of”, lawyers said.

The “allowed him to meet his relatives only three and a half months before he died. He had been praying for this day for years. Pete loved his family”, they added.

Coones was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 for killing a couple, Catherine and Carl Schroll.

Although he always claimed his innocence, they did not believe it, and only recently was he taught that he had been trapped, and that prosecutors had only hidden important evidence that they would have acquitted him from the beginning.