Alaska Innocence Project

During an early-hours interrogation of the two young boys, who were intoxicated and unaccompanied by parents or a lawyer, they were led to believe both Marvin Roberts and Kevin Pease were also involved.

"[6] According to new evidence presented by the Alaska Innocence Project, another man — William Holmes — said in a sworn affidavit that he and another group of Fairbanks teenagers killed Hartman.

Holmes is serving a life sentence for the murder of two people in California that happened after the Fairbanks crime.

[7] Following a five-week post conviction relief hearing but before the judge had an opportunity to make a decision, the state negotiated an agreed settlement resulting in the dismissal of the conviction and the freeing of George Freese, Kevin Pease and Eugene Vent on December 17, 2015.

As part of the agreement, the men agreed to withdraw their claim of prosecutorial misconduct and to not sue the state or the city of Fairbanks.