Did police coercion help lock away a killer?

Lyla Reese
8 min readJul 12, 2022

The tragic 1991 murder of college student Anita Byington and the misguided pursuit for justice.

Anita Byington | Credit: People Against Violent Crime

At 6:30 am on Sunday, August 11, 1991, a resident of the Spring Creek Apartments on the east side of Austin, Texas, found a body in the wooded area behind one of the buildings. It was Anita Byington, 21.

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