New DNA tests failed to link Dennis Dechaine to the murder of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry, but the Maine Attorney General said other evidence supports his conviction.
New DNA tests failed to link Dennis Dechaine to the murder of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry, but the Maine Attorney General said other evidence supports his conviction.
A lawyer for Dechaine, who was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry 34 years ago, says he will ask for a new trial based on state-of-the-art DNA tests.
Hae Min Lee, 18, was strangled to death and buried in a shallow grave at Baltimore s Leakin Park in 1999. Her former high-school sweetheart Syed, now 41, was convicted.