Bill Clutter

Bill Clutter specializes in crime scene analysis, post-conviction investigations, death penalty mitigation and fact investigation, as well as complex civil investigations. Bill started his career in 1985, when he was appointed to his first death penalty case as a fact investigator. When
Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011, Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn credited Bill, and a handful of others, for his work to free the wrongfully convicted. In 2001, co-founded the Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS). In 2019, he called
Illinois’ Attorney General to establish a state-wide conviction integrity unit, which was implemented in 2024. After moving to Louisville in 2013, Bill started a not-for-profit organization called Investigating Innocence, which help to free three more innocent people from prison.