After serving 45 Years in Prison For The 1974 Murder of His Wife, Cleveland Man Found Not Guilty in New Trial
A 83-year-old man has always maintained that he didn’t kill his wife in 1974, has now been found not guilty after serving 45 years in prison. Isaiah Andrews has been vindicated after a new trial was granted to him in 2020 once his attorneys from the Ohio Innocence Project found compelling evidence pointing to another suspect — information that had never been given to Andrews’ original defense team.
“For over four decades, Isaiah Andrews has fought for justice for his wife and for his freedom,” Marcus Sidoti, one his attorneys, said in a statement last week. “Today the jury got it right. He is finally vindicated. Isaiah will never get these decades of his life back, but he can now live the remainder of his life a free man.”
Andrews was found not guilty by a unanimous verdict in a new trial that shared the reading of transcripts, as many of the original trial’s witnesses have passed away. Andrews was arrested after his wife, Regina Andres was found dead on Sept. 18, 1974 Cleveland Scene reported. Andrews was brutally stabbed and police believed she was sexually assaulted. She was found wrapped in hotel linens.
The initial suspect Willie Watts, a man who’d been in the area near where Mrs. Andrews’ body was found and who’d been staying in a Howard Johnson hotel missing bed linens after he checked out. However, Watts had an alibi for the time that police believed Mrs. Andrews was killed. Once the coroner adjusted the time of death, however, police never again questioned Watts. It was that bit of information that was never shared with Isaiah Andrews’ defense team, prompting a new trial.
Watts went on to have a long criminal history after the 1974 murder, including several crimes against women. He died in 2011.
At the time of her death, Isaiah and Regina Andrews had only been married three weeks.
In the courtroom after the verdict, Andrews told reporters, “I’ve become free.”
“This was the right result today, but I don’t know if he’ll ever get actual justice,” Brian Howe of the Ohio Innocence Project told Cleveland.com. “He should have never been convicted in the first place, and he certainly never should have been retried.”
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