(CNN) -- A pair of siblings who served decades behind bars in the rape and murder of a North Carolina child will walk out of prison free men Wednesday after DNA evidence implicated someone else. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were just teenagers when they were arrested in 1983 and charged with the rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie in Red Springs, about 30 miles southeast of Fayetteville in rural Robeson County. Buie's body was found in an area of Red Springs known as something of a "lovers' lane," according to Joe Freeman Britt, the district attorney who prosecuted them in the '80s. The ground was littered with "beer cans, condoms and cigarettes," Britt said.
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DNA exonerates brothers convicted in the murder of a North Carolina child
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Both were originally sentenced to death in 1984; one was later reduced to life
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Original prosecutor sticking to his guns, calls it a "tragic day for justice"
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Lawyers say their confessions were coerced
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