The Ohio Supreme Court may review a Van Wert County case involving John Spirko, convicted in the 1984 murder of postmaster Betty Jane Mottinger, after a lower court granted DNA testing of key evidence.

 A forty-year-old murder case is being revisited with modern DNA testing technology. A Van Wert County judge has granted John Spirko the opportunity to have evidence in the Betty Jane Mottinger murder case tested by a Virginia laboratory.