This is a selection of photos of Steve Szarewicz on display in the New Kensington, Pa, home of his sister Suzy Patton on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Ernie Bevilacqua declines to talk to a reporter after answering his door at his home in Greensburg, Pa., on April 29, 2024. Bevilacqua is among four jailhouse informants whose testimony put Steve Szarewicz behind bars for life on a murder conviction. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Suzy Patton holds a photo of her brother Steve Szarewicz, who insists he was wrongly convicted of a 1981 murder based on the testimony of four jailhouse informants, in her home in New Kensington, Pa, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
This is a July 25, 2024, photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections of Steve Szarewicz, who insists he was wrongly convicted of a 1981 murder based on the testimony of four jailhouse informants. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP)
Suzy Patton shows old photos of her brother Steve Szarewicz, who insists he was wrongly convicted of a 1981 murder based on the testimony of four jailhouse informants, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in her home in New Kensington, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Ernie Bevilacqua, right, declined to talk to a reporter after answering his door at his home in Greensburg, Pa., on April 29, 2024. Bevilacqua is among four jailhouse informants whose testimony put Steve Szarewicz behind bars for life on a murder conviction. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
This combination image of police booking photos from the Pennsylvania and Oklahoma departments of corrections shows, from left: David John Cannon, 2008; Ernie Bevilacqua, 2012; Richard A. Bowen, 1994; and Kenneth Leon Knight, 2008. (Pennsylvania and Oklahoma Departments of Corrections via AP)
Steve Szarewicz is placed in handcuffs shortly after his arrest for the murder of Billy Merriwether outside Pittsburgh, on Dec. 9, 1981. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Steve Szarewicz is placed in handcuffs shortly after his arrest for the murder of Billy Merriwether outside Pittsburgh, on Dec. 9, 1981. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Suzy Patton shows old photos of her brother Steve Szarewicz, who insists he was wrongly convicted of a 1981 murder based on the testimony of four jailhouse informants on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in her home in New Kensington, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
This is the area along Little Bull Creek in Natrona Heights, Pa., on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, where Billy Merriwether's bullet-riddled body was found in February 1981. The man serving life for the killing, Steve Szarewicz, insists he was wrongly convicted based on testimony by four jailhouse informants. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)