CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charges have now been dropped against all four people once accused in the rape and killing of a Navy sailor from New York in 1992.
The four suspects were all arrested in 2010 after authorities say they had a confession that 22-year-old James Horton was killed so he wouldn’t report he saw a fellow sailor having gay sex at the former Charleston Naval Base.
But documents obtained by The Post and Courier of Charleston say the confession was wrong on a number of key details, including where Horton’s body was dumped and how he was killed.
Horton was found hands tied behind his back with a gunshot wound to the chest in a watery ditch near Charleston in November of 1992. He was from Sherburne, New York.
