Man, 60, wrongly arrested in 2019 for 30-year-old cold case murder of young girl SUES cops claiming they were fame-hungry media hounds who manipulated DNA evidence to frame him, as he says accusation left him unemployed and homeless
Joao John Monteiro, 60, has filed a lawsuit against the Pawtucket, Rhode Island Police Department for wrongfully arresting him in 2019 for a 1988 murder
He was arrested for the death of Christine Cole, 10, who disappeared in 1988 in Pawtucket after investigators claimed DNA evidence linked him to the case
Just seven months later the charges were dropped because the DNA evidence was too broad and did not specifically point to Monteiro as the killer