BOULDER, Colo.—A Boulder County judge is being asked to allow attorneys to offer alternative suspects to jurors when a Longmont man stands trial for murder.
Boulder County deputies arrested Kevin Elmarr in January for the 1987 killing of 27-year-old Carol Joyce Murphy. Hikers found her nude body in Lefthand Canyon.
She had been strangled.
Prosecutors say DNA evidence ties Elmarr to the slaying, but Elmarr’s defense team says the names of a half-dozen other people should be presented to the jury as possible suspects.
Defense attorney Kristin Johnson says one of those is an ex-boyfriend who allegedly choked her during a domestic dispute. She says that could be important — because Murphy was strangled.
Judge James Klein gave no indication when he would rule.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
