Lynn DeJac Peters, who was released from prison after being wrongfully convicted to killing her daughter, has died of cancer. DeJac Peters was convicted in the strangling death of her 13-year-old daughter, Crystallyn Girard, in 1993. She was released from prison in 2007 after 14 years behind bars, when DNA evidence determined the girl was killed by her then-boyfriend, Dennis Donohue.
Donohue was convicted of murdering a Buffalo woman, Joan Giambra, who was killed less than a year later. DeJac Peters was later awarded $2.7 million dollars from New York State for the wrongful imprisonment.
DeJac Peters died in her sleep early Wednesday morning in her Buffalo home. She is survived by her husband and three children. She was 50 years old.
