COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina judge on Friday threw out murder charges against a father and a stepmother, saying there was no new evidence they
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina judge on Friday threw out murder charges against a father and a stepmother, saying there was no new evidence they killed their 5-year-old child in 1989.
Investigators immediately thought the killing scene had been staged and they caught his father, Victor Lee Turner, and stepmother, Megan R. Turner, in lies, Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis said at a January news conference where he announced murder charges against both of them in the cold case.Defense attorneys after the couple were arrested pointed out serial killer Richard Evonitz was stationed on a U.S.
Using a microscope shouldn’t count as new evidence to let prosecutors reopen the case, Kent said at the hearing, according toWhen they arrested the couple this year, deputies changed their theory on how the boy was killed, saying he was strangled with a dog collar attached to a leash instead of just the leash. The new theory only came after deputies bought a collar and tested it with a mannequin, defense lawyers said.
The couple asked officers what might happen if a family member harmed the boy and others said Megan Turner suggested a big fight with her stepson before he died that she won.
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