Timothy Masters, the Fort Collins man who spent eight years in prison for a murder he did not commit, will discuss his experiences at a free event at Aims Community College in Greeley on Friday, October 12, from noon to 1:30.

          Masters was convicted in the gruesome murder of Peggy Hettrick and sentenced to life in prison without parole, despite a total lack of physical evidence linking him to the crime. The conviction, which was based largely on junk science—the interpretation of violent imagery in Masters’ adolescent artwork by a forensic psychologist who never met or spoke with Masters—was overturned in 2008.  It has been called “one of most egregious miscarriages of justice in Colorado history.”

           Colorado’s attorney general formally exonerated Masters in 2011. 

           Additional information about Friday's event can be found here.