New DNA tests raise doubts on Florida man's 1983 murder conviction.
Ada Cox Jankowski was stabbed 29 times and strangled as she walked home from a bar in Miramar Florida in 1983.
Anthony Caravella, then 15, was arrested and convicted of the killing and has been in prison for 26 years.
This week Broward County prosecutors say Caravella, now 41, should be released, at least temporarily, because new forensic test results eliminate him as the source of DNA found on the 58-year-old woman.
DNA tests conducted by the Broward Sheriff’s Office crime lab in 2001 were inconclusive.
Prosecutors say they want to determine how the California lab reached results so different from their own crime lab’s and that Caravella should be released pending a review of the new evidence. The sheriff's office is asking the California lab to share their methods and results.
Diane Cuddihy, Caravella’s attorney, says the tests exonerate her client.
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