A U.S. Navy veteran imprisoned in Mexico for more than 13 years for a crime he did not commit is now a free man after a judge overturned his conviction.
Frisvold had been imprisoned for the 2010 killing of Natalya Sidorova, a Russian citizen married to American Jerry Schultz. Frisvold said in interviews with ABC News that the three of them traveled to Acapulco after Schultz promised Frisvold, an acquaintance, a job when they returned to Sacramento.
After a bystander noticed the scene, Schultz appeared to call for help, according to the surveillance footage. Court filings reviewed by ABC News show he later identified Frisvold as the assailant, but both men were arrested by local authorities and charged in Sidorova's slaying. Frisvold has since maintained his innocence but was stuck in prison for 13 years of complicated proceedings in a language he still doesn't understand. He was first convicted of qualified homicide in 2017, even after a government-employed criminologist testified that Frisvold could not be the man in the surveillance footage because of differences in their skull structure and facial features, according to the court documents.
During Frisvold's early years in prison, his father, also named James Frisvold, visited multiple times, urging local officials to release him. But the elder Frisvold's efforts failed to attract much initial attention and he died in February 2020 -- a loss that the U.S. Navy veteran still has trouble talking about.
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