Kenneth waters accident
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Kenneth Waters
On the morning of May 21, 1980, Katherina Reitz Brow was murdered in her Massachusetts home. Her body was found at 10:45 a.m. – there were bloodstains throughout the house, and her purse, some jewelry, and an envelope where she kept cash were all missing.
Investigation and Trial
Crime scene investigators recovered hairs, blood, and fingerprints in the house that were considered potentially tied to the perpetrator. The apparent murder weapon, a paring knife, was collected from a wastebasket in the house.
Kenneth Waters became a suspect because he lived next to the victim with his girlfriend, Brenda Marsh. He worked at the Park Street Diner in Ayer, Massachusetts where Brow was a frequent customer. It was apparently known to diner employees that Brow kept a large amount of cash in her home.
Waters was questioned by police and provided a strong alibi that he had worked until 8:30 a.m. on the day Brow was killed and a coworker had driven him home. He changed clothes and had been in the Ayer courthouse for a 9 a.m. appearance with his attorney. He said he left the
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A sister's 'conviction' inspires movie
By PHIL DEVITT
Hathaway News Service
When Kenny Waters was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, he turned to the only person he believed could set him free: his sister.
Betty Anne Waters, a working Massachusetts-born mother of two, rose to the challenge. She believed so fiercely in her brother's innocence that she went to college, graduated law school, passed the bar exam, challenged a flawed justice system and found the DNA evidence that vindicated her sibling 18 years after his incarceration.
If this sounds like the plot of a major motion picture, it is. "Conviction," starring Hilary Swank as the gutsy heroine, hits theaters nationwide Oct. 29. But it's also a true story — one the real-life Waters, a Bristol, R.I. woman with SouthCoast ties, relives each time she sees the film.
"I cried through the whole thing," Waters said after seeing the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival and just before jetting off to the Hollywood premiere. "It was pretty hard to watch. It was unreal."
Unreal.
Waters uses t
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Conviction (2010 film)
2010 American film
Conviction is a 2010 American biographicallegal drama film directed by Tony Goldwyn, written by Pamela Gray, and starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. The film premiered on September 11, 2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival[3] and was released in the US on October 15, 2010.[2]
Plot
Kenny and Betty Anne Waters were children of an indifferent mother. Forced to fend for themselves, they were very close before they were eventually sent to separate foster homes. Now a wife and mother of two sons, Betty Anne's life is still centered on her brother, who had a troubled youth and is currently serving a life sentence in prison.
Kenny was initially taken in for questioning by Sergeant Nancy Taylor over the murder of his next-door neighbor, Katherina Reitz Brow on May 21, 1980, in Ayer, Massachusetts. He was released, but two years later, based on new testimony presented by Taylor from his ex-wife Brenda, and ex-girlfriend Roseanna, he was arrested and tried. The evidence presented at Kenny's trial
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