LA prosecutors drop charges against suspected 'Skid Row Stabber,' ending decades-old case
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles prosecutors dropped all criminal charges against the alleged "Skid Row Stabber" on Friday, closing a 40-year legal saga complicated by a jailhouse scandal, overturned convictions and a defendant who may have only months to live.
Bobby Joe Maxwell, who has been comatose since November, was released from police custody for the first time since 1979 on Friday morning, when Assistant District Attorney Robert Grace asked a judge to dismiss five murder charges against the accused serial killer.
"Forty years. Forty years," his sister Rosie Harmon said
