A Manhattan Supreme Court exonerated Van Dyke Perry and Gregory Counts on Monday, (May 7) for a 1991 rape and kidnapping, after the victim told investigators the assault “never happened.”

As reported by The New York Times, during the early morning hours of Jan. 18, 1991, an unidentified woman approached police officers sitting inside a patrol car on a Harlem street. She told the cops she’d been kidnapped at knife point by three black men near her home in Queens and raped. Before the month’s end, Perry and Counts were arrested and charged with sodomy, kidnapping and criminal possession of a weapon.