A Louisiana judge has condemned law enforcement’s attempt to force a convicted serial killer to waive his rights to sue the state before potentially exonerating evidence is processed by the agency’s crime lab.
Daniel Blank, known as the River Parishes serial killer, is on death row for the April 1997 stabbing murder of 71-year-old Lillian Phillipe in the city of Gonzales. Following his arrest in November 1997, Blank confessed to killing Phillipe and five other victims.
