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DNA in slaying might have been tainted, prosecutor says

A prosecutor in Hopewell, Va., says the case against Donald Long of Las Vegas, who is charged with killing his then-wife in Virginia in 1964, has suffered a setback.

Attorney Rick Newman told The Richmond-Times Dispatch that a Hopewell police worker is thought to have contaminated DNA evidence in the case with his or her own DNA.

Long, now 77, is charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation of 30-year-old Naomi Fulcher Long.

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