Original Article Sep 27, 9:32 PM EDT City approves $3 million settlement for wrongfully convicted man By BETH DeFALCO Associated Press Writer PHOENIX (AP) -- The city of Phoenix has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was twice wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death, city officials said. It's the second settlement Ray Krone has received this year from the government. In April, Maricopa County agreed to pay Krone $1.4 million in compensation. "I'm just glad for it to be over," said Krone, who spent more than a decade behind bars, including two years on death row. "I hope I won't ever need lawyers again." Phoenix City Council members approved the settlement last week, said city spokeswoman Toni Maccarone. Krone was a postal worker when he was arrested in 1991 in the killing of Kim Ancona, a bartender who worked at a Phoenix lounge where Krone played darts. He was convicted in 1992 and sentenced to death, based largely on expert testimony that supposedly matched his teeth with bite marks found on Ancona. His conviction was overturned in 1994 on procedural grounds. A new trial was ordered, and Krone was convicted a second time in 1996. In sentencing him the second time, the judge in the case said he wasn't sure that Krone was the killer. He spared Krone the death penalty and sentenced him to life imprisonment. In 2002, new DNA testing proved Krone wasn't the killer. Using an FBI database, DNA from the crime scene was linked to a man already in prison for another crime. A trial for the new suspect is pending. Krone was freed that year, but his wrongful conviction lawsuit dragged on. In his lawsuit, Krone alleged that Phoenix police did a shoddy job of investigating the murder and didn't look at other suspects closely enough. His lawsuit alleged the county used "altered and manufactured evidence" and that a bite mark expert "gave false testimony which he knew to be untrue." In addition to his mental anguish, Krone said he sued Arizona agencies for the physical pain and suffering he endured. Krone said he was stabbed, had his arm broken and contracted hepatitis C while in Arizona prisons. Neither the city nor county admitted wrongdoing by settling the lawsuit, said lawyers in the case. Krone won't see all the $4.4 million from the lawsuit. He said some of the money will go to his parents, who spent upward of $300,000 and mortgaged their home to pay for his defense. Krone said he also owes around $500,000 in attorney's fees. Also this year, Krone got a new look from the ABC reality show "Extreme Makeover." Once dubbed the "snaggletooth killer" for his crooked smile, Krone now flashes a straight row of pearly whites. The 48-year-old lives in Dover Township, Pa., near his family. He's spent the past few years traveling, speaking out against the death penalty and advocating DNA testing. He currently serves on the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons.