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.
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Michael Oliphant, 23, was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison for the death of Kirk Perine and for firing shots at employees of a doctor’s office as they were leaving work on Feb. 15, 2023. Perine was found dead in his car from a gunshot wound. An Allen County jury found him guilty of felonious assault and murder charges.
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A Lima man stood before a Putnam County judge for his sentencing of a murder last year.