Earl Rice Jr.
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Earl Rice Jr. poses for a photograph at his home in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, May 18, 2017. More than a decade passed before he came to terms with his responsibility for Ola Danenberg's death. When his legal appeals ran out, he blamed his lawyer for giving up on him. The attorney's letter back was a turning point. "I'm sorry you feel that way," the lawyer wrote, according to Rice. "It's not that I'm quitting and throwing your life away. You did that when you grabbed Mrs. Danenberg's purse." "He was dead on," Rice says. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Doreen St. John and Earl Rice Jr. walk on Rice's father porch in Wilmington, Del., Friday, May 19, 2017. St. John, Rice's girlfriend in middle school, married him in a prison wedding, then divorced, and they now plan to marry again. "I fell back in love with him, just seeing him, being with him," she says. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Earl Rice Jr. walks Doreen St. John to her car after a visit in Wilmington, Del., Friday, May 19, 2017. St. John, Rice's girlfriend in middle school, married him in a prison wedding, then divorced, and they now plan to marry again. "I fell back in love with him, just seeing him, being with him," she says. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Earl Rice Jr. walks in the park near his home in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, May 18, 2017. In September 1973, Rice and his friend ran toward Ola Danenberg, and Rice snatched her purse. As he took off down an alley, he says he looked back to see Danenberg fall to her knees. Two days later, hearing police were looking for him, Rice went to the police station and confessed to robbery. That's when detectives told him Danenberg had hit her head on the sidewalk and died. They charged him with murder. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Earl Rice Jr. speaks during an interview in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, May 18, 2017. On Rice's first day in prison, an inmate he knew from home warned: "`You're a young kid. You're in here with some dangerous dudes.'" (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
