After spending 15 years behind bars for the rape and murder of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, a Kansas man is now free after his brother confessed to the horrific crime in a suicide note.
Floyd Bledsoe, 39, was convicted in 2000 of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated indecent liberties in the shooting death of Camille Arfmann, who was found with four gunshot wounds in November 1999.
Her body was thrown on a pile of trash.
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Tom Bledsoe committed suicide in early November, and in one of several notes left behind he confessed to details of the crime that were previously unknown to investigators.
“I killed Camille Arfmann on Nov. 5, 1999,” Jefferson County detective Kirk Vernon testified Tuesday reading one of the notes. “We had sex on my parent’s bed.”
Vernon read the note which described how Tom Bledsoe panicked after realizing Arfmann was only 14 years old.
“When the gun went off behind her head it was an accident. I didn’t mean to kill her,” Vernon testified. “Floyd S. Bledsoe is innocent. Thomas E. Bledsoe is the guilty one.”
The confession comes two months after attorneys with the Project for Innocence and Post-Conviction Remedies at Kansas University had sought a retrial for Bledsoe based on newly released DNA evidence showing that semen in Camille’s body most likely came from Tom Bledsoe.
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