Hair to be tested for DNA in 1988 Conviction
Thursday, September 22, 2005
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Allegheny County district attorney's office said yesterday it will not oppose DNA testing in a 1988 homicide case, signaling a change in policy that grew out of the recent exoneration of Homewood man on a wrongful rape conviction.
District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. …
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Hair Tested in Whitley Case
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Convicts Find DNA Tests to Be Tough Sells To Judges
June 15, 2005
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
From the time he was implicated in the 1988 murder of Noreen Malloy at a McDonald's restaurant near Kennywood Park, Drew Whitley has professed his innocence. Now, he says, modern-day DNA analysis of hair found at the scene would prove it.
John Dolenc claims he didn't kill his …
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Cleared by DNA after 18 years behind bars, he’s broke, jobless
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Drew Whitley had never met the young woman who approached him outside his mother's modest Braddock apartment yesterday, gently shook his hand and muttered: "God bless you."
An examiner scrutinizing his driver's license application the other day thanked him for his perseverance.
At a shopping center over the weekend, Mr. …
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Convict cleared by DNA is freed after 18 years in prison
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Freed after 18 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, Drew Whitley gazed at his mother yesterday afternoon and thanked her for helping him fight for exoneration and for consoling him in his darkest hours.
"I got a little weary at times, and I would call mom. She was always there, keeping me focused throughout this …
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Bill Moushey chat transcript: 5/2/06
May 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Slr: What original evidence was Drew Whitely convicted with?
Bill Moushey: Prosecutors brought a blood evidence specialist (pre-DNA) to suggest before the jury that the hair evidence matched Mr. Whitley. They also got a fellow named Jerome Wilson to testify that it was Mr. Whitley he saw (through a mask, hat, coat and gloves). A person named …
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2nd DNA test to free man jailed in 1988 slaying
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Convicted in killing at McDonald's near Kennywood
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Eighteen years after Drew Whitley was imprisoned for life in the 1988 murder of McDonald's night manager Noreen Malloy, prosecutors are prepared to free the former West Mifflin man after a second round of DNA tests indicated he was not responsible for the …
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Citing DNA, convict asks for new trial in ’88 killing
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
By Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Claiming that new DNA tests prove Drew Whitley did not kill McDonald's restaurant manager Noreen Malloy near Kennywood Park in 1988, his lawyer today asked an Allegheny County judge to free Mr. Whitley from prison or grant him a new trial.
In a 17-page motion filed with Common Pleas Judge Walter Little, Scott Coffey argued …
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