Former Akron police Capt. Douglas Prade declared innocent in ex-wife’s killing; prosecutors plan appeal
Former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade kisses his sister Yvonne during a news conference after his release from the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday, in London. The news conference was held in the parking lot of the Union Township Hall just down the road from the prison. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade kisses his sister Yvonne during a news conference after his release from the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday, in London. The news conference was held in the parking lot of the Union Township Hall just down the road from the prison. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade waves to media gathered outside the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday in London, Ohio. Prade is driven by former Akron Police Officer Dennis Johnson. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade talks to reporters during a news conference after his release from the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday, in London, Ohio. The news conference was held in the parking lot of the Union Township Hall just down the road from the prison. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade hugs Jodi Shorr, a dministrative director for the Ohio Innocence Project after a news conference after his release from the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday, in London, Ohio. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Ohio Innocence project director Mark Godsey talks to former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade before a news conference upon his release from the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday, in London, Ohio. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Doug Prade stops for a news conference at the Union Township Hall upon his release from the Madison Correctional Institution on Tuesday, in London. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Department Captain Doug Prade, talks about his Ohio Supreme Court appeal filed while at Madison Correctional Institution in London, Ohio. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Department Captain Doug Prade (left), and David Laing from the Ohio Innocents Project of Cincinnati talk about Prade's Ohio Supreme Court appeal filed while at Madison Correctional Institution in London, Ohio. (Phil Masturzo/Akron Beacon Journal)
Margo Prade
Former Akron police captain Douglas Prade becomes emotional while testifying during his aggravated murder trial in the Summit County Common Pleas courtroom in Akron. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Douglas Prade (left) listens as his defense team, Kerry O'Brien (center) and Susan Vogel (right), confer during his aggravated murder trial at the Summit County courthouse in Akron. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Assistant prosecutor Alison McCarty (left) holds the lab coat that Dr. Margo Prade was wearing the day of her death during the aggravated murder trial of Douglas Prade at the Summit County Courthouse in Akron. Thomas Callaghan, a forensic DNA examiner with the FBI, explains to the jury the procedures used in taking samples of the coat for DNA testing. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Phyllis Foster, sister of Margo Prade, lowers her head as autopsy photos are shown to the jury during the aggravated murder trial of former Akron police captain Douglas Prade at the Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Dental expert Dr. Peter Lee Baum (left) demonstrates the looseness of the dentures of former Akron police captain Douglas Prade (right) during his aggravated murder trial at the Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron. Baum testified that Prade could not have bitten anything with the dentures that he wears. Prosecutors have sought to link bite marks on Margo Prade's arm with Douglas Prade. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Akron Forensic Dental Surgeon Dr. Thomas Marshall, points out how the bite makes could have been made on the arm of Margo Prade. (l to r ) Akron Police Lt. Elizabeth Daugherty acted as the suspect, Assistant Prosecutor Alison McCarty as victim Margo Prade. (Lew Stamp/Akron Beacon Journal)
Margo and Douglas Prade divorced after 18 years of marriage. She was slain about seven months later.
Tim Holstan, a Columbus Ohio attorney and reportedly a recent boyfriend of the late Dr. Margo Prade, tries to hold back tears as he testifies in Akron. Prade's ex-husband, former Akron Police Capt. Douglas Prade, is charged with aggravated murder in Dr. Prade's shooting death. (Lew Stamp/Akron Beacon Journal)
Lillie Hendricks, mother of the late Dr. Margo Prade, weeps during the prosecution's closing arguments in the aggravated murder trial of former Akron Police Capt. Douglas Prade in Akron. (Lew Stamp/Akron Beacon Journal)
Akron police lieutenant Ed Duvall Jr. (right) hugs the mother of Margo Prade, Lillie Hendricks, after hearing the guilty verdict against former Akron police captain Douglas Prade at his aggravated murder trial at the Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron. Prade was found guilty on all counts. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Ida Sanford (left), Margo Prade's aunt, speaks to former Akron police captain Douglas Prade after he was found guilty on all counts at his aggravated murder trial at the Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron, Ohio. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
Former Akron Police Capt. Douglas Prade (left) denied his guilt in remarks to the court after being found guilty on all counts at his aggravated murder trial in the Summit County Courthouse Defense attorneys Kerry O'Brien and Susan Vogel are at the right. (Ed Suba Jr/Akron Beacon Journal)
