Fred Zain Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Fred Zain is an American actor, producer, and director. He was born on April 14, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his roles in the films The Last Picture Show (1971), The Sting (1973), and The Natural (1984). Zain began his career in the late 1960s, appearing in several television series, including The Mod Squad, The Partridge Family, and The Streets of San Francisco. He made his feature film debut in 1971's The Last Picture Show, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Zain went on to appear in several other films, including The Sting (1973), The Natural (1984), and The Color of Money (1986). He also appeared in the television series The Rockford Files and The A-Team. In addition to his acting career, Zain has also worked as a producer and director. He produced the television series The Rockford Files and The A-Team, and directed episodes of The A-Team and The Rockford Files. As of 2021, Fred Zain's net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.

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Zain was charged with fraud, but his trial was put on indefinite hold after he was diagnosed with liver cancer. In 2001, he was charged on four counts of obtaining money under false pretenses, but the jury deadlocked. A new fraud trial was later scheduled for July 2003. In December 2002, Zain succumbed to his liver cancer and died in his home in Ormond Beach, Florida.

At the request of the state police, Kanawha County Prosecutor William Forbes began a criminal investigation. Forbes was so disturbed by what he found that he asked the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia to appoint a special judge and a panel of lawyers and scientists to investigate the serology department. On November 4, 1993, Senior Circuit Court Judge James Holliday issued a report finding that Zain had engaged in a staggering litany of misconduct and outright fraud. According to the report, Zain had misstated evidence, falsified lab results and reported scientifically implausible results that may have resulted in as many as 134 people being wrongfully convicted. Holliday found that Zain's misconduct was so egregious that any testimony offered by Zain should be presumed as prima facie "invalid, unreliable, and inadmissible." It also found serious deficiencies in the serology division's quality-control procedures. The Supreme Court unanimously accepted Holliday's report on November 12, calling Zain's actions "egregious violations of the right of a defendant to a fair trial" and a "corruption of our legal system."

In 1989, Zain became chief of physical evidence at the Bexar County medical examiner's office. However, West Virginia prosecutors continued to call upon him because his results appeared to be more favorable than others.

In 1987, Glen Woodall was convicted of a series of grisly felonies at Huntington Mall, including two cases of sexual assault, principally on Zain's testimony regarding semen from one of the victims. Woodall was sentenced to 335 years in prison. However, in 1988, DNA testing—the first ever admitted as evidence at the state level in the United States—proved conclusively that Woodall was innocent, and the conviction was thrown out. Woodall's defense team conducted its own tests, which determined that Zain had used flawed blood-typing methods in tying the semen to Woodall. More seriously, it appeared that Zain had initially determined a piece of hair was unidentifiable pubic hair, but later changed his identification to hair from Woodall's beard. On that basis, Woodall was freed in 1992. Woodall subsequently sued the state for false imprisonment and won a $1 million settlement.

There were problems on the horizon, but Zain's supervisors chose to ignore them. In 1985, FBI Laboratory director James Greer told the state police that Zain had failed basic courses in serology and testing bloodstains. No corrective action was taken. Later that year, two workers claimed to have seen Zain record results from blank test plates. However, these complaints were not taken seriously because it was well known the workers and Zain didn't get along well. Zain also gained a reputation for being very "pro-prosecution."

Zain was hired as a chemist in the West Virginia state crime lab in 1977, with the rank of trooper in the West Virginia State Police, which ran the lab. He eventually rose to director of the serology department in the state Department of Public Safety–the official name of the State Police until 1995.

Frederick Salem Zain (April 14, 1951 – December 2, 2002) was a forensic laboratory technician in West Virginia and Bexar County, Texas, who falsified serology results to obtain convictions.