Harry Bennett told District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Frederick Weisberg late last month that he didn’t know how Catherine Fuller ended up dead in a Northeast Washington alley. The only thing he was sure of, he said, was that the story he told police implicating a group of young men in Fuller’s 1984 murder was a lie.
The murder, and the high-profile investigation that followed, sent the city into a panic. Police arrested more than a dozen suspects, and prosecutors argued at trial that a group of men forced Fuller into an alley, where they robbed her and beat her to death.
