1.  Another man has since confessed to the murder and implicated a friend, but the original defendants remain in prison.

2.  He implicated a friend, Richard Danzinger, who also was freed this year.

3.  However, Alger did implicate his friends and reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors to spare himself from a lengthy prison term.

4.  Reno was not reluctant to request an independent counsel to investigate the Whitewater affair which has implicated close friends of Clinton.