Could DNA testing on materials from a 1988 murder scene in Dartmouth not only clear the man sentenced for that murder, but lead to clues as to who may have committed the infamously unsolved New Bedford Highway Killings that made headlines that same year?

That's one of the arguments being championed by New England Innocence Project as they face the Commonwealth in court.

Shawn Tanner served over three decades for murder, and died in 2022. The New England Innocence Project argues that DNA testing, particularly on the victim's fingernails, could reveal information about a new suspect. But attorneys for the state have been trying to overturn a Superior Court decision that allowed the already-ordered DNA testing to proceed.

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