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Miracle and uncertainty: Families respond to removal of death penalty in 1985 case (opens the original)
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SPANISH FORK — Doug Carter sat in a visiting room at the Utah County Jail on Thursday listening to his attorney explain that after 41 years, the fight for his life is over. "He just asked me, is this true?" said defense attorney Neal Hamilton after delivering the news to Carter, who celebrated his 71st birthday just last week. "(He's) afraid to get his hopes up. He's had the rug pulled out from him before." New tests by the Utah State Crime Lab proved his DNA wasn't on any of the evidence collec
Over a year later, new trial date still not set for Douglas Carter's death-penalty case (opens the original)
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PROVO — In the year and a half since the Utah Supreme Court vacated Doug Carter's death penalty conviction, the 70-year-old has begged for just one thing. "Let's go to trial," he said in a phone call with KSL a few days before an Aug. 26 hearing where a judge was expected to, among other things, set a new trial date. Carter said he was tired of hearings that never resolved anything. "Any evidence (they) got, bring it on," he said from the Utah County Jail. "It will make a jury say, 'What is goin
Inside the courtroom: Should former Utah death row inmate be released on bail 40 years later? (opens the original)
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PROVO — Ian Olesen was only 12-years-old when his grandma Eva Olesen was brutally murdered in her Provo home. "I have lived more than 40 years with the consequences of this crime, carrying the loss of my grandmother from childhood to adulthood," he said, choking back emotion, during a bail hearing for Douglas Carter, who spent those four decades locked up on Utah's Death Row until his conviction was overturned in May of 2025. "For 40 years, the Olesen family has lived with a life sentence of our
An adopted man learned his biological father was on death row. Then his conviction overturned (opens the original)
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HERRIMAN — Tyler Anger had no idea that his curiosity about his biological father would turn his life upside down and land him in the middle of one of the state's oldest and most high-profile death penalty cases. "I was adopted when I was five days old," he said. "I always knew it. My parents are white." When Anger turned 18, his mom asked if he'd like to meet his birth mother and biological siblings. "It was the summer of 2001," he said. "I met her and my siblings at Temple Square." As they con
State Crime Lab test shows Douglas Carter's DNA isn't on murder scene evidence, defense says (opens the original)
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PROVO — The capital murder case of Douglas Stewart Carter is the kind of case Neal Hamilton learned about in law school but hoped he'd never see in his career. "They stole 42 years from Doug," he said, choking back apparent emotion. "And nobody is willing to do anything about it. That's the frustration." Carter was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to die for killing 57-year-old Eva Olesen in 1985. But a new report from the Utah State Crime lab indicates Carter's DNA isn't on the crim
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