Charges Dropped After Errant DNA Sample
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FORREST CITY, Ark. — A prosecutor who had the FBI test the wrong strand of hair from the 1991 murder of a schoolgirl said Wednesday he will drop charges against the suspect.
The correct hair strand eventually was sent to the FBI, but the laboratory couldn’t extract sufficient DNA material from it, prosecutor Fletcher Long Jr. said.
That left no physical evidence to link Robbie Dale Tubbs of Weiner to the death of 9-year-old Christina Pipkin, Long said.
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