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By Peg McNichol
May 14, 2021 | 10:08 AM
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) The Michigan Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School has taken up the case of former Zeeland resident Karen Sue Boes.
She was convicted of killing her 14-year-old daughter Robin in 2002, and unsuccessfully appealed her case to the Michigan Supreme Court.
The Netflix show The Confession Tapes featured Boes’ story. The true-crime documentary examines claims by people convicted of murder that their confessions were coerced, involuntary or false.
Lawyers for Boes are asking a judge to set aside her conviction and order a new trial, based on what they are calling “junk science” used in her first trial.
Friday, December 11, 2020
Karl Otis Householder (83 years old) was born in Sandstone, Mo., to his parents Roy and Lucille (Palmer) Householder. He went to be with his Lord Jesus on Dec. 5, 2020, at the Hospice House of Kansas City, Mo., after a hard fought battle with cancer. Karl is survived by his loving wife, Barbara (Hardenbrook) Householder, of their home in Nevada, Mo.
Karl attended High School in Nevada, Mo. He was on a winning basketball team and loved to play the game especially with his brother. Following High School he attended SMS College in Springfield, Mo., where he also participated in R.O.T.C. He then became a High School Biology teacher and a coach. After teaching, Karl went into sales and worked for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Co. and sold medicinal drugs to doctors over the 4-state area for several years. Then opportunity came for Karl to work at another thing he liked which was building and he became a builder of new homes and commercial buildings. He was