His career began to decline in the mid-60s, however. He fought 40 bouts and won 27 of them, 19 by knock out. He is most widely remembered for being arrested and imprisoned for a triple homicide in New Jersey in which there was absolutely no evidence against him and for which no eyewitnesses recognized him. The case was finally thrown out in 1985, 18 years after the original trial. Rubin’s story was first made famous by the Bob Dylan song “Hurricane” and years later was turned into a movie starring Denzel Washington. Rubin Carter died on April 20, 2014 at the age of 76.