Alaska’s state crime lab could not exclude Michael Alexander as the source of DNA evidence found on the clothing of a Fairbanks girl he was convicted of killing more than 25 years ago.
Alexander is serving a life sentence for the 1987 murder of Kathy Stockholm, a 17-year-old student at West Valley High School.
The DNA test was part of a lawsuit to challenge Alexander’s conviction. It filed by the nonprofit Alaska Innocence Project.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://is.gd/oNyis9 ) that District Attorney Scott Mattern announced the crime lab’s finding Thursday.
He says the DNA link between Alexander and the victim is sufficient evidence for the lawsuit to be tossed and for work to stop on DNA analysis of other evidence used at the 1988 trial.
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