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Did police frame a convicted man? Old murder case gets another look

Itâ??s a story that stretches the bounds of credulity: Police arrest a man, pour blood on him and plant a blood-smeared knife in his truck to frame him for a murder he didnâ??t commit.

Prosecutors and police then withhold, alter and destroy the evidence that could let the man prove his innocence.

Kenneth Hudsonâ??s account of what happened the day 19-year-old UW-Madison student Shanna Van Dyn Hoven was stabbed to death in Kaukauna in 2000 may seem improbable.