Alaska News

Video: Roberts of the 'Fairbanks Four' speaks at AFN

Hundreds of AFN delegates urged Gov. Bill Walker on Friday to free the Fairbanks Four -- Eugene Vent, Marvin Roberts, Kevin Pease and George Frese -- Alaska Natives who many believe were improperly convicted of murdering John Hartman in Fairbanks in 1997.

Roberts, the only member so far of the Fairbanks Four to leave prison on parole, spoke to AFN on Oct. 17, 2015.

"This nightmare began in October of 1997," he said. "Then, like now, we four men maintain our innocence. I know for a fact that I am innocent. And I believe in all of my heart that they are innocent."

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