A Utah man who has spent decades on death row after he was convicted of killing a police chief's aunt has been released after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence excluded him as the source of DNA recovered from key pieces of evidence in the case.Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was let out on bail late Monday over objections from the victim's family.He must wear a GPS monitor while he awaits a new trial in the killing of Eva Olesen, who was found tied up, stabbed and shot inside her Provo home on Feb.
27, 1985, during what investigators suspected was a robbery.A judge ordered him not to have any contact with Olesen's family.The Utah Supreme Court ordered a new trial last year, pointing to misconduct by investigators.MAN ‘FRAMED’ IN ‘SATANIC’ MURDER FREED AFTER 22 YEARS WINS $24M AS REAL KILLER STILL UNKNOWNDouglas Stewart Carter, front left, and his son Tyler Anger, right, walk out of the Utah County Jail after a Utah judge ordered Carter's release from jail on Monday Sept.28, 2026, in Spanish Fork, Utah.
(AP Photo/George Frey)Carter has maintained his innocence and argues that he was coerced into a signed confession.No physical evidence linked Carter to the crime scene, but the jury convicted him based on the confession and the testimony of two witnesses who claimed he bragged about killing Olesen, although those witnesses later recanted.A DNA analysis received on Sept.22 excluded Carter as a possible match to blood found on a doorknob and genetic material recovered from the handle of a knife used to stab Olesen.Judge Derek Pullan said those findings further undermined the case against Carter, but noted that a jury could still say that he killed Olesen."This is going to be a lot for him," Carter's son, Tyler Anger, said on Monday as he waited for his father after his release was ordered.Carter will be placed in an extended stay hotel located near Anger, who was adopted by another family as an infant and did not learn about his father's conviction unt...