PHILADELPHIA -- A man behind bars for the murder of then 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn could be freed thanks to new DNA evidence. The murder and sexual assault in Philadelphia captivated the city and ...
The lawyers representing a man who was wrongfully convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988 are asking the city of Philadelphia to test an existing DNA sample. In a letter to the judge ...
In 1988, 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn was abducted from her Northeast Philadelphia home and murdered. Her body was left inside a cardboard box on the street. Today, after 33 years and two trials, ...
It was a classic case of “who’s that girl?” Al Grimm impatiently waited for Barbara Jean to end her phone call when he first spotted her at a party in 1963. Transfixed, he had to meet her. Even though ...