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First US murder conviction overturned using DNA, family tree evidence

About 70 cases have been solved using "genetic geneology," and for the first time the technique has also proved a man's innocence. [AFP]

An American man was exonerated Wednesday for a decades-old murder he did not commit, using evidence-based on DNA and a genetic family tree, the first such result using a revolutionary investigative technique.

Christopher Tapp, 43, had served 20 of his 30-year sentence for the 1996 rape and murder of Angie Dodge.

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