On Monday, February 19, 2007, Wake Forest University and the Department of Religion hosted a special screening of the award winning film, "The Trials of Darryl Hunt." The screening and discussion which followed, both held in Wait Chapel, were well attended by both the University and wider Winston-Salem communities.
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The movie chronicles the brutal 1984 rape and stabbing death of Deborah Sykes who worked as a copy editor at the Winston-Salem Sentinel, an afternoon newspaper, and the aftermath of the killing. Hunt, a black man, was convicted twice of killing Sykes, a white woman.

He served 20 years in prison for a crime he was exonerated of in 2004 after DNA evidence linked the murder to Willard E. Brown, who confessed and pleaded guilty to the murder.