Since his conviction in 1985 Ewing has been trying to locate the physical evidence in all of the cases. The sheriff departments routinely ignored his requests.  Then the state of Michigan disallowed prisoners to file under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Friends and family, however, continued the search and in 1994 the Jackson County Sheriff Department stated that the evidence had been destroyed.

The act of destroying the evidence was in direct disobedience to this order written by the Prosecutor in 1985.

The Ewing Defense team also sought the physical evidence from his convictions in Washtenaw County (Jensen & Wright).  In both cases it has mysteriously disappeared.

Evidence cannot be located in the two Livingston County cases that were handled by the Brighton Post of the Michigan State Police.  In fact, the Michigan State Police Crime lab - which handled the testing of all samples in these cases - claims they cannot locate anything from any case charged to Ewing.  That would include: Lab slides, lab reports, notes created by lab technicians, microfilm copies - even the file folder jackets.