Alan Gell, sentenced to die for the murder of Allen Ray Jenkins, has never wavered from his story: He didn't know the man and had nothing to do with his death. New evidence suggest that he is telling the truth.

Alan Gell is on Death Row for the murder of Allen Ray Jenkins. But in the weeks and months after the murder, the star witness, 15-year-old Crystal Morris, gave a string of versions of how it happened.

For two years, nothing visible had happened in his case except a game of musical chairs among his lawyers.

Getting sentenced to death was a lucky break for Alan Gell because it guaranteed him something more: two post-conviction lawyers to examine the case more broadly.

Alan Gell is set to go to federal court next year to confront SBI Special Agent Dwight Ransome, the lead investigator in the case that landed him on death row for a 1995 murder he did not commit.

Alan Gell, the former death row inmate who spent nine years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit, stood in court Tuesday and admitted to crimes that he did.

The man victimized in a tainted murder trial is accused of 31 sex offenses with a girl who was 15 at the time. The girl, now 16, is pregnant, perhaps with Alan Gell's child.

Former death row inmate Alan Gell is under investigation for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl, according to a recently returned search warrant.

The former death row inmate contends the state violated his civil rights by withholding evidence.

Jim Coman retreats from testimony, statements may introduce challenges to convictions.

The State Bar schedules historic hearing on the Alan Gell case.

Ex-assistant prosecutors get slight punishment in case in which man could have been executed.

Death penalty foes say ruling leaves them hope.

Gell prosecutors deny holding data.

Alan Gell and Darryl Hunt -- one acquitted of murder, one exonerated -- try to persuade state legislators to call a temporary halt to executions.

Gell's prosecutors face bar inquiry.

In February, Alan Gell emerged from the strange cocoon of prison life into a foreign landscape of cell phones, PDAs and high-speed Internet.

Prosecutors say each side should see files.

North Carolina's attorney general, Roy Cooper, discusses the Alan Gell case with The News & Observer.

AG handled retrial badly, law profs say.

With the state still acting as though it thinks Gell and his crackerjack lawyers simply fooled the jury, no wonder Jenkins' family is having trouble reconciling itself to Gell on the loose.

No one on the jury wanted to convict Gell for the 1995 murder of retired truck driver Allen Ray Jenkins, according to interviews with several jurors.

Supporters of a moratorium on executions rally around the acquittal of former death row inmate Alan Gell.

Alan Gell is the latest of a growing list of North Carolinians who have been exonerated after convictions that prosecutors won with illegal misconduct. Five of the state's death sentences have been overturned in the past six years because prosecutors withheld information that suggested the defendants' innocence. Withholding such information has been against federal law since 1963.

What does freedom feel like after death row? For Alan Gell, it felt like a fresh, icy wind blowing across the back yard he hadn't seen in nine years.

As much as the verdict brought relief to Alan Gell in his murder retrial, it increased the strain on North Carolina's system of criminal justice.

"I'm very disappointed," said David Ray. "I don't feel that my father got justice today." For so long, the family of Allen Ray Jenkins has been sitting there in the courtroom silently, stoically watching the retrial of the man they believe murdered their loved one.

A Bertie County jury heard two starkly different arguments Tuesday.

Lawyers are to make their closing arguments to the jury today after the winter storm canceled court Monday.

Items that might have provided a timeline in the victim's death weren't collected.

A state medical examiner whose 1998 testimony was crucial to putting Alan Gell on death row testified Thursday that Allen Ray Jenkins was shot to death while Gell was in jail.

The testimony of Dr. M.G.F. Gilliland on Thursday differed significantly from her testimony at Alan Gell's first trial in 1998. Some examples:

Alan Gell denies role in 1995 murder of Allen Ray Jenkins.

In tiny Windsor, economy and Isabel outweigh talk of the major murder trial unfolding in their historic Bertie County courthouse.

Some testimony contradicts previous statements in the murder retrial of Alan Gell.

State again tries Alan Gell for 1995 slaying. Gell's lawyers will use evidence withheld by prosecutors in his first trial..

North Carolina will retry a young man named Alan Gell in the 1995 shooting death of Allen Ray Jenkins.

In an abrupt and unprecedented ruling, Superior Court Judge Cy A. Grant Sr. faulted the state for withholding evidence that he said could have been used to prove Alan Gell's innocence at his trial.

Justice defends prosecutors in the Alan Gell murder case.

Some question decision to retry inmate.

The attorney general concedes prosecutors withheld evidence in Gell's first murder trial.

Another murder conviction is thrown out, and questions about credibility in North Carolina's legal system are looming.

The case of a man taken off death row but kept in prison despite doubts about his guilt risks a travesty of justice.

Inmate freed from death row reads, studies, hopes as he awaits his fate.

Although a judge has overturned Alan Gell's conviction and death sentence, he remains on death row.

'Time of Death," the series by Joseph Neff published last week in The N&O, is the kind of tale that fills many a mystery novel.

Cooper wants truth in Gell case.