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The Crime: Cleve Foster is on Texas death row for the abduction, rape and shooting death of Nyaneur "Mary" Pal on Valentine's Day 2002.
More: Cleve Foster, a former army recruiter, and his co-defendant, Sheldon Ward, met Pal one night in a Fort Worth bar. They followed her home, then kidnapped and raped her, and shot her.
Pal’s nude body was found the next morning in a remote wooded area, with a gunshot wound to the head. Evidence led to the arrest of Foster and Ward.
At trial, DNA results showed that Foster sexually assaulted Pal. Pal’s blood could not be ruled out as the source of the blood stain on the front seat of Foster’s truck. Ward’s bloody clothes were found in the trunk of his car and a cooler filled with a soapy bleach solution and containing items such as Foster’s boots and leather gloves was found in the bed of Foster’s truck.
In the punishment phase of the trial, Foster’s statement to police, in which he related circumstances surrounding another murder, that of Rachel Urnosky, several weeks prior to Pal’s murder, was read to the jury. In the statement, Foster admitted that he had had sex with Ms. Urnosky the night of her murder, but claimed Ward was her killer. Ms. Urnosky was found dead in her apartment, also from a gunshot to her head. Foster and Ward were charged with the Urnosky murder, but were first tried for the Pal murder.
...yeah, he's innocent. No doubt in my mind.
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