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.