Snags in 1964 Va. murder case
A prosecutor says the case against a Las Vegas man charged with killing his then-wife in Virginia in 1964 has suffered a setback.
Hopewell Commonwealth's Attorney Rick Newman told The Richmond-Times Dispatch that a Hopewell police employee is believed to have contaminated DNA evidence in the case with his or her own DNA.
The newspaper says the problem was discovered early this month when a DNA profile developed from the evidence matched a DNA profile developed in a 2008 Hopewell burglary case.
Sgt. Michael Walls says the police department won't comment on an ongoing investigation.
Seventy-seven-year-old Donald Long is charged with first-degree murder in the strangulation of 30-year-old Naomi Fulcher Long.
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the Richmond Times-Dispatch
| November 22, 2010; 9:54 AM ET
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