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DNA matches

By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on May 11, 2015 3:53 PM

Precious Whitfield

After several months of speculation fueled by death row inmate Eric Lane's legal team, a DNA expert testified this afternoon that the DNA found on several pieces of biological evidence collected in 2002 as part of an investigation into the kidnapping, rape and murder of 5-year-old Precious Whitfield matches a DNA sample provided by Lane to the state earlier this year. For complete details of the hearing currently unfolding in Wayne County Superior Court, see Tuesday's News-Argus.