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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.
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The Confession Tapes
The 2017 true crime television documentary series follows the story of a number of people who were convicted of murder, but go on to say that their confessions were tampered with. It has been praised for its great representation of criminal law, miscarriages of justice and psychology. One episode looks at a man who was advised to confess to murdering a teenage girl at the wheel of his truck whilst driving, while another follows Hamid Hayat s case of admitting to attending a terrorist camp. Fans have compared the series to other popular crime documentaries like The Keepers and Making a Murderer.
ZEELAND Nearly 20 years after the death of her daughter, Zeeland woman Karen Boes may get another chance to prove the innocence she’s clung to during her life sentence in prison.
Boes, 65, was found guilty of murdering her 14-year-old daughter Robin in 2002. She was convicted by an Ottawa County jury after the Boes’ family home caught fire with Robin sleeping inside. Prosecutors claimed Boes set the house on fire, then left, knowing her daughter was trapped inside.
But at her sentencing and during her 18 years in prison since, Boes insists she had nothing to do with the fatal fire.
Now, the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic is helping Boes have another chance to prove it in court.