One of Beatrice Six receives settlement from Nebraska

The state will pay $180,000 to another one of the six people wrongfully imprisoned for a 1985 southeast Nebraska murder. Thomas Winslow won the settlement this week.

Last fall, the state agreed to pay Joseph White $500,000 and Kathleen Gonzalez $350,000 in similar settlements. Attorney General Jon Bruning says the settlement should allow Winslow to move forward. Two other lawsuits related to the rape and murder of 68-year-old Helen Wilson of Beatrice are pending.

One of the six people who was exonerated by DNA evidence, Deb Shelden, has not sued. The six were the first in Nebraska to be cleared by DNA evidence.

Winslow served 19 years in prison before being released in 2008. Officials say the DNA evidence implicated an Oklahoma man who died in 1992.