At Fairbanks 4 hearing, bootmark ID’d on victim in question

Fairbanks police believed they could see the shape of one of the Fairbanks Four’s boot lugs in the facial injuries of John Hartman.
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That was clear Thursday as Lieutenant Jim Geier testified at an ongoing hearing to consider whether the four men convicted of the 1997 murder, George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent are in fact innocent.
Under questioning by Fairbanks Four attorney Jahna Lindemuth, Geier recounted how detectives had a photo of Hartman’s