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Kenneth Phillips, Jr. was sentenced to a term of 53 years to life in prison for the murder and sexual assault on August 18, 2006. DNA evidence linked Phillips to the crime. Initially, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office sought the death penalty against Phillips but dropped the request because of mitigating evidence presented by the defense.
On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison and on April 24th, the District Attorney’s office filed to formally dismiss all charges against him. Murder and sexual assault charges have since been brought against Phillips. Ray Krone spent more than a decade in prison, some of it on death row, before DNA testing cleared his name.
Sounak Sengupta. September 20, 2023. Investigation Discovery’s ‘Crime Scene Confidential: A Murderer’s Mark’ chronicles how 36-year-old night manager Kim Ancona was murdered inside her Phoenix, Arizona, bar in late December 1991.
On April 8, 2002, Krone was released from prison after DNA evidence proved that he did not murder the victim and identified the killer: Kenneth Phillips, a repeatedly violent sexual offender.
The analysis of the saliva and blood samples taken from the victim’s body conclusively ruled out Ray as the source and pointed to a man named Kenneth Phillips. Surprisingly, he had been serving a sentence for an unrelated sexual offense but had never been considered a suspect in Kim Ancona’s murder despite residing close to the bar where ...
DNA evidence from the crime scene matched that of Kenneth Phillips – a man who lived near the bar in which Ancona had been killed, and who had a history of violence against women. Krone, like so many other death row ‘exonerees’, now travels the world to share his experiences. In his words: ‘I was a Boy Scout, a postman…I was in the Air Force.
Phillips was on parole at the time of the murder and ultimately took a plea deal, which was a relief to Krone, so Ancona's mother wouldn't have to go through another gut-wrenching trial of staring ...
