A La Crosse man who served more than three years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out has died this weekend. The family of Evan Zimmerman says the 61-year-old died of cancer.
Zimmerman had been convicted in 2001 of the strangling death of his ex-girlfriend, Kathleen Thompson, in Eau Claire.
With the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, he successfully appealed on the grounds of ineffective counsel.