Marion Gales was a 28-year-old handyman when Thomas, a 32-year-old women’s rights activist, was found slashed to death in her Cotswold home in southeast Charlotte. He was reportedly homeless and occasionally worked on the house where Thomas lived with her 10-month old son and the other suspect in her murder — her doctor husband.

Marion Gales, who spent 20 years in prison, was released today, but he remains linked to the unsolved murder of Kim Thomas, a Charlotte mother killed in her home in 1990.Gales, who was imprisoned for manslaughter,

Marion Gales was never charged in connection with the case despite DNA evidence linking him to the crime scene.