Mark Norwood, the man accused of killing the wife of Michael Morton, the wrongly convicted Texas man whose case was featured Sunday on 60 Minutes, is also a suspect in another murder of an Austin woman. Now he has now been named as an alternate suspect by an appeals attorney representing Dennis Davis, who was convicted last year in a third strikingly similar murder case. In all three instances, the Austin-area women were bludgeoned in the mid-1980s while sleeping.
Unlike in the Morton case, in which prosecutors resisted requests for DNA testing for years, the prosecutor in the Davis case has readily agreed to re-examine the case and look for evidence that might be subjected to DNA testing. Brandi Grissom, whose previous article in the Texas Tribune raising questions about Davis’ conviction prompted the review, writes about the latest developments here.
