ALFRED — The attorney for a New Hampshire man convicted in Maine of killing his former fiancée says his client deserves a new trial because police didn’t pursue evidence that might have cast doubt on his guilt.
The Journal Tribune reported that Dan Lillley told a Maine judge Wednesday that a pre-trial case worker told a detective that a man who was in jail told her where the body of 30-year-old Kelly Gorham was located nearly two weeks before police found it in that spot.
Because police didn’t pursue the information, Lilley said Jason Twardus, of Rochester, deserves a new trial.
Twardus was convicted of strangling Gorham, a nursing student from Alfred, in August 2007 and burying her body on his father’s property in Stewartstown, N.H.
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