Horace Roberts
Horace Roberts spent more than 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Roberts was exonerated after a review of forensic evidence that found him innocent.
According to a court declaration, Roberts was factually innocent of the murder of his former lover Terry Cheek. Murder charges have been filed against two other men, including the victim’s husband.
Roberts was convicted in July 1999 of second-degree murder in the April 1998 death of Terry Cheek. Cheek had vanished the night of April 13, 1998, and never made it to her late-night shift at Quest Diagnostics, where she worked with Roberts, according to investigations.
After four days, her strangled body was found along the highway near Lake Corona, and people immediately suspected Roberts, who, according to colleagues at the company was having an affair with Cheek, though she was married.
