A woman whose testimony helped convict a man of raping and killing a 68-year-old Beatrice woman more than 20 years ago said she lied.

Ada JoAnn Taylor implicated Joseph White and another man in the 1985 slaying of Helen Wilson.

Attorneys for White and Thomas Winslow say DNA tests have cleared them of the rape. The men are now waiting for a judge to decide whether to throw out their convictions.

If they are exonerated, they will be the first Nebraska inmates freed by DNA.

White was convicted of first-degree murder. Winslow pleaded no contest to aiding and abetting second-degree murder.

Taylor, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case, said she was never in Wilson's apartment and didn't see White and Winslow rape the woman.