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Christa Worthington was stabbed to death in 2002

Cape Cod man gets DNA sample back



Provincetown (AP)  -- A Cape Cod man has won a two-year legal battle to get back a DNA sample he voluntarily gave to authorities investigating a murder.

 

Keith Amato of Provincetown submitted the DNA sample during the investigation into the 2002 stabbing death of fashion writer Christa Worthington, whom he knew through his former father-in-law.

When Christopher McCowen was convicted in November 2006 of Worthington's rape and murder, Amato asked for the cheek swab back. He was even part of a class-action lawsuit.

He says after repeated requests, the sample was returned to his Boston-based lawyer on Wednesday.

The law firm Proskauer Rose LLP is still seeking the return of more than 100 other DNA samples collected in the case.

The Cape and Island district attorney says they have been destroyed.


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