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29. Apr. 2019 · Raymond Payne, 81, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1975 for strangling a 16-year-old student. An appeals court ordered a new hearing based on DNA tests that excluded his seminal fluid from the victim's body.
19. Jan. 2021 · Raymond Payne was a teacher who murdered Debbie Gama in 1975 and was sentenced to life in prison. He died in 2020 after a retrial that upheld his conviction despite his DNA test.
30. Apr. 2019 · Raymond Payne. By. Matt Miller | mmiller@pennlive.com. Saying newly-developed DNA evidence could drastically alter the outcome of the case, a state Superior Court panel has ordered a new guilt...
3. Nov. 2019 · The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal by Erie County prosecutors of a lower court ruling that 82-year-old Raymond Payne should receive a new degree-of-guilt hearing. District Attorney Jack Daneri told the Erie Times-News on Friday that he will argue that Payne is guilty of first-degree murder, which carries a ...
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Ferguson was raised in Erie, one of four daughters of the late Harold Palmer and Inez Heinonen. After Debbie Gama was killed, Ferguson started the career that made her well known among crime victims throughout the region. Ferguson volunteered with Erie County Rape Crisis Center from 1981 to 1986, and was named volunteer of the year one year. Starti...
Ferguson recounted her experience with deep grief and forgiveness again in January 2019. Her daughter's murder was featured in the Discovery Channel series "The Lake Erie Murders." Payne's case was still not over by that time. Payne won a reprieve in April 2019 after filing unsuccessful appeals for decades. The state Superior Court ordered that Pay...
Ferguson did not spare Payne her persistence. She pressed Payne even as she forgave him. As she met with him and wrote to him, she demanded to know who else was with him when he killed her daughter. The seminal fluid showed that Payne likely had an accomplice. "Forgiveness had an additional benefit in that she could have conversations with him in t...
2. Dez. 2020 · Convicted murderer Raymond D. Payne, who lost one of the longest-running appeals in a criminal case in Erie County, has died in state prison after testing positive for COVID-19, authorities...
19. Jan. 2021 · The investigator made a connection between the copper-coated wire used to bind Debbie and her high school English teacher, Raymond Payne. The police finally arrested Payne, nearly two years after Debbie’s death, and charged him with murder.
