A man convicted in the 1988 rape and stabbing death of an Atlanta mother will be given a chance to prove his innocence through DNA testing in a deal worked out between The Georgia Innocence Project and the office of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.
William Whitsett, now 68, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape and voluntary manslaughter of Evelyn Jones, whose body was discovered by her 8-year-old son in their Montreat Avenue home in 1988.
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