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CMU Professor Takes DNA Testing To New Levels

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:48:46 -0400

PITTSBURGH - He's not your typical Sherlock Holmes, but this CMU professor is in demand by police around the world.

Arrest made in death of missing ECSU student

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:59:29 -0400

TRUMBULL, Connecticut - Almost a month after Eastern Connecticut State University student Alyssiah Wiley disappeared, authorities on Saturday identified her remains and charged a Bridgeport man in her death.

Charges filed in 1986 Kansas City rape

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:16:06 -0400

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - The Jackson County prosecutor says DNA evidence led to charges against a former Kansas City man in the 1986 rape and robbery of a deaf woman.

Okla. lawmakers near passage of DNA testing bill

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:52:46 -0400

OKLAHOMA CITY - Convicted criminals who maintain their innocence would have a way to seek DNA testing to help prove their cases under a bill that is nearing final passage in the Legislature and would eliminate Oklahoma's dubious distinction as the only state in the nation without such a program.

Man convicted of 1983 murder through DNA evidence

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:20:04 -0400

SANTA ANA, California - Orange County prosecutors say a man who is already serving time for a 1985 murder has been convicted of a 1983 killing through DNA evidence.

NY man pleads not guilty in '94 Vt. death of wife

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:08:03 -0400

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont - A suburban New York man released from a life sentence after DNA tests casts doubt on his original conviction for killing his wife in Vermont pleaded not guilty Thursday to a new aggravated murder charge in the same case.

Convicted Maine killer seeks DNA tests on clothes

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:36:14 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - The lawyer for a Maine man serving two life sentences for the 1999 shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and the toddler she was baby-sitting told Maine's highest court Wednesday that DNA tests could show somebody else might have committed the killings.

Springfield child rape appeal could hinge on DNA

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:45:36 -0400

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri - Dueling testimony in an imprisoned child rapist's post-conviction appeal on Friday included arguments about DNA evidence and whether genetic samples were tainted by police before being processed.

Prosecutors undecided whether to retry Wyoming man

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:49:22 -0400

CHEYENNE, Wyoming - A Wyoming man released from prison after serving 23 years says he's confident new DNA testing in his 1989 rape case will lead to his exoneration if prosecutors take him to trial again.

New Utah forensic tool gets 'CSI' exposure

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:53:18 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY - By MICHAEL MCFALL

Man pleads guilty in 1999 Tuscaloosa killing

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:50:49 -0400

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - A Tuscaloosa man jailed in the 1999 slaying of a 21-year-old Tuscaloosa woman has pleaded guilty to murder, finally resolving the cold case crime.

Lawyers question DNA evidence in Ridgeway case

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:52:14 -0400

GOLDEN, Colorado - Defense lawyers are questioning the DNA evidence analysis in the case of a teen accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a suburban Denver girl.

After 18 years, police ID man killed in house fire

Thu, 02 May 2013 19:25:16 -0400

SALT LAKE CITY - Investigators are crediting advances in technology for helping them identify a man found dead nearly two decades ago after a Utah house fire as a 27-year-old from Oregon who was reported missing around the same time.

Court: Reconsider Ohio inmate's DNA test request

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:08:34 -0400

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A trial court should reconsider an inmate's request for new DNA testing on a cigarette butt found near the scene of a double murder for which he was sentenced to death, the Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday in a ruling that clarifies the handling of post-conviction DNA retesting requests.

DNA sample taken from son of Delaware shooter

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:21:36 -0400

WILMINGTON, Delaware - Investigators have taken a DNA sample from a man whose father fatally shot two women at a Delaware courthouse before taking his own life.

Boise police make arrest in 1998 cold case slaying

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:46:45 -0400

BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho inmate has been linked through DNA testing to the unsolved 1998 rape and murder of a Boise woman, police and prosecutors in Boise announced Wednesday.

Manning seeks rehearing on death sentence appeal

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:13:12 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to look again at his case.

Ky. convict seeks DNA testing in 1987 murder

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:34:13 -0400

NEWPORT, Kentucky - A man who has served 26 years in prison for a 1987 murder in Kentucky will have a hearing to argue for DNA testing on evidence that he believes will clear him of the crime.

Police: DNA links convicted rapist to 1992 rape

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:30:49 -0400

LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana - Lake Charles police say DNA has linked a man serving life in prison for a rape in 1999 to a double rape seven years earlier.