Category: DNA evidence

Man Charged With Firebombing Wisconsin Pro-Life Office

March 29, 2023
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The Department of Justice has arrested and charged a Wisconsin man they believe was behind a firebombing that targeted a pro-life organization in Madison, Wisconsin in May of 2022. On Monday, the DOJ announced they had charged 29-year-old Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury with one count of “attempting to cause damage by means of fire or an…

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New DNA Tests Cast Doubt on 1996 Conviction in Railroad-Spike Slaying, Lawyers Say

July 25, 2022
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David Lee Myers has been on Ohio’s Death Row since 1996, awaiting execution for one of the most gruesome killings that anyone in Xenia, Ohio, can recall: A railroad spike had been jammed through a young woman’s skull, and rocks, which had been used to violate her sexually, had been left inside her body. People around…

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Pomona Man Convicted of 11-Year-Old Boy’s Killing in 1990

March 10, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—An ex-convict was found guilty on March 10 of the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was kidnapped more than three decades ago while walking home from school in Inglewood. A downtown Los Angeles jury deliberated about three hours before convicting Edward Donell Thomas, 53, of Pomona, of first-degree murder for the May 24,…

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Double Child Killer Colin Pitchfork Released From Prison

September 1, 2021
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Double child killer Colin Pitchfork has walked free from prison after bids to keep him behind bars for longer failed. Pitchfork, now in his early 60s, was jailed for life after raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. He became the first man convicted of murder on…

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