Woman who spent 35 years in prison for murders she didn't commit awarded £2.5m

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Woman who spent 35 years in prison for murders she didn't commit awarded £2.5m
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Cathy Woods, 68, was wrongly convicted of the 1976 Bay Area killings of student Michelle Mitchell and Paula Baxter

A woman who spent 35 years in prison for two murders she didn't commit has been awarded $3million in damages.DNA at the scene of the murder proved she was not the killer, and another man has since been convicted.

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