The evidence — previously thought to have been destroyed was intact, but court officials have ruled a new testing with the latest technology will not be allowed.
M-Vac is now primarily used to collect DNA in criminal cases. A man who pleaded to an Alford Plea in the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Damien Echols, has petitioned the state of Arkansas to use M-Vac testing on the ligatures collected in the case.
A hearing Thursday will consider a request by one of three men convicted of the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old West Memphis boys for new testing of evidence.
For years, the stepfather of one of the three children killed in West Memphis, Arkansas, has maintained his innocence, despite public outcry to investigate him. During a special…