Richard Alexander is an Indiana man who was wrongfully convicted of a 1996 rape and exonerated in 2001 by DNA evidence.
Years later, on September 17, 2020, Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death.
Police arrested Richard Alexander (then 30 years old) in August 1996 for four of the rapes, largely on the basis of the statements of the victims.
DNA evidence definitively excluded him as a suspect in one of the rapes, although both the victim and her fiancé continued to insist that Alexander was the perpetrator.
On June 4, 2002, Richard Alexander filed a federal suit against the city of South Bend, its police department and 14 of its officers, including Sgt.
The court stated that Alexander had not proven his rights were violated during the trial which yielded his wrongful conviction.
[6] On May 22, 2007, Alexander pleaded guilty to one count of battery for having beaten a former girlfriend with a lead pipe in 2005.