Michael Politte was just 14 years old when he was charged in 1998 with murdering his mother, Rita Politte, who died after being hit in the head and set on fire in her Missouri home. More than three ...

Michael Politte is serving a life sentence after a jury found he murdered his mother, Rita Politte, as a 14-year-old in Washington County, Missouri. Almost two decades ago, Michael Politte was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Josh SanSoucie went for a sleepover at a friend's house back in 1998 at the age of 15, he had no idea he would land in the ...

A Missouri man who has insisted for more than 20 years that he was wrongly convicted as a teenager of killing his mother has been granted parole. Attorneys for 37-year-old Michael Politte confirmed ...

Lawyers have filed a petition with hopes of overturning the conviction of a man imprisoned for murdering his mother more than 20 years ago. Michael Politte, now 37, is serving a life sentence at a ...

Washington County Prosecutor Josh Hedgecorth last week filed a motion to vacate conviction in the case of Michael Politte, saying there was "clear and convincing evidence" that Politte was erroneously ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Michael Politte is finally free, released from the Jefferson City Correctional Center on Friday after spending more than two decades locked up for murdering his mother, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Michael Politte has spent more than half his life behind bars. He was convicted of killing his mother when he was 14-years-old. Michael has been the focus of a recent KCTV5 ...

When Josh SanSoucie went for a sleepover at a friend's house back in 1998 at the age of 15, he had no idea he would land in the middle of a murder investigation. More than 20 years later, SanSoucie ...