Evening Times has the whole story. The evidence portion of the story is below:
In July, a DNA testing status report filed by the defense stated that a hair found on a shoelace ligature on the body of Michael Moore matched DNA belonging to Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of Stevie Branch.
Shoelaces, believed to have been taken from the boys’ shoes, were used to bind the boys arms and legs together.
Police said at the time of that report that Hobbs wasn’t a suspect and attributed the hair to secondary transfer evidence.
However, in Monday’s filing the defense states that a hair found at the root of a tree near where the boys’ bodies were found matches the DNA of David Jacoby, a friend of Terry Hobbs.
Further new evidence pointing to Echols’ innocence, the defense claims, are test results that show DNA from someone other than Echols, Baldwin or Misskelley was found on the penis of Stevie Branch.
Additionally, the filing states that forensic experts, among them, Dr. Michael Baden, former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, found that some of the wounds on the victims were caused by “animals at the crime scene – not by knives used by the perpetrators, as the prosecution claimed.”
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