DNA Test: Hair Not Mark Christie's

(Rochester, N.Y.) – According to DNA testing, a hair sample found in the palm of a woman killed in 1988 does not belong to Mark Christie.

As a teenager, Christie bragged to friends that he killed Viola Manville of Hilton. He is now in prison for killing four-year-old Kalie Poulton of East Rochester in 1994.

Frank Sterling is in prison for the beating death of Manville. Sterling confessed to killing Manville on tape, but later recanted. His lawyers pressed for DNA testing on the hair and other evidence.

A Monroe County court judge ruled no further testing was warranted. The District Attorney’s office and a lawyer for Sterling argued before a state appeals court Monday morning.

"We think sufficient testing has been done. There has to be a line drawn somewhere,” said Assistant District Attorney Wendy Lehmann.

"I don't know if he's innocent or not innocent. My contention is this evidence might tell us,” said Sterling’s attorney, Donald Thompson.

The DA’s office is working with Sterling’s lawyers on how to test remaining evidence.