Thursday, November 24, 2011

Jury says it's deadlocked in NJ cold case from '78 (AP)

NEWARK, N.J. ? A judge is telling deadlocked jurors at the trial of a man charged with murdering five New Jersey teenagers more than 30 years ago to keep deliberating.

Lee Evans is representing himself and has pleaded not guilty.

Jurors passed a note Wednesday morning saying they couldn't reach a verdict. But the judge told them to continue.

The jury has only deliberated for about 12 hours over four days.

Prosecutors say Evans lured the youths to a vacant Newark home in 1978 by promising them work, then nailed them in a closet and set the home on fire.

The bodies of Melvin Pittman, Ernest Taylor, Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell were never found.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/crime/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111123/ap_on_re_us/nj5_missing_teens

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