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Terrill Swift in 1998 was convicted of the rape and murder of Nina Glover in 1994. The crime was committed by five young boys, four of them were minors at the time of the crime. Glover was a prostitute who regularly used drugs. At the time of the investigation the police interviewed four people, those being the garbage truck driver who found her body, an assistant manager of a liquor store, a neighborhood resident and a man named Jonny Douglas. The police searched for a while to find the suspects of the crime and after a while of searching a young man confessed to the crime and named off four boys names who helped him commit the crime. There was no real evidence that linked the boys to the crime other than the confession. Twelve years after
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