Payouts to the wrongly jailed get a big boost
Dwayne Dail can now receive more money from North Carolina for the 18 years he spent in prison for a rape he did not commit.
Fates cross, lives change: How the system snared wrong man
It was the summer of 1987. Raleigh police were hunting a rapist. A man had already attacked a handful of women in apartments near NCSU. Police suspected the rapist spied on the women before the attacks. They staked out the wooded areas behind apartments filled with NCSU students.
Rape victim feels remorse for innocent man's lost years
A DNA test proved that Dwayne Dail, the man Tomeshia Lasha Artis had pointed out as her rapist so long ago, was innocent. On Monday, another man was charged with the rape.
DNA revives a case gone awry
William Jackson Neal Jr., a 52-year-old Goldsboro man, was charged with several child sex offenses stemming from the September 1987 attack on a 12-year-old girl. Dwayne Dail was freed last summer after spending half his life in prison for rape.
N&O video wins internationally
The honor was awarded for the video of Dwayne Dail, the North Carolina man convicted of rape and freed from prison 18 years later after DNA evidence proved him innocent.
Dail has check for $368,493 coming
By the state's calculations, Dwayne Dail is due $2.28 for every hour of the 18 years he passed in prison paying for another man's crime.
Bittersweet liberty
In August, Dwayne Dail, 39, left prison after serving 18 years for a crime he didn't commit. A 12-year-old Goldsboro girl pointed to him as the man who raped her; a jury believed her. Now, he struggles to adapt to life outside prison -- and bond with his son.
Judge limits liability for Dwayne Dail
The mother of Dwayne Dail's son will get only a small cut, if any, of the $360,000 the state owes him for 18 years of wrongful imprisonment, a judge ruled late Thursday.
Dail won't owe back child support
His ex-girlfriend agrees to drop her claim on a cut of the money he will receive from the state.
Wrongly convicted man ready to live life
Dwayne Dail is free after DNA test shows he spent 18 years in jail for a rape he didn't commit. He was 19, a day laborer and an aspiring rock singer when Goldsboro police arrested him on charges of raping a 12-year-old girl after breaking into her home.
