PORTLAND — Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine is scheduled for hearings in Portland Superior Court on Thursday and Friday for what could be his final bid for a new trial in the 1988 torture and murder of then 12-year-old Sarah Cherry. Rockland-based lawyer Steven C. Peterson, who represents Dechaine, said Wednesday that months of DNA analysis […]
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Attorney F. Lee Bailey says DNA ‘absolutely’ will show client was Boston Strangler
YARMOUTH — As news spread Thursday that new DNA evidence likely identified his client as the Boston Strangler of nearly 50 years ago, F. Lee Bailey reacted by simply saying he already knew. The famed-criminal defense attorney of six decades said Friday afternoon that his client Albert DeSalvo, who died in 1973 in a prison […]
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