
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 23, 1993                   TAG: 9305230062
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA.                                LENGTH: Short

NEW EVIDENCE CLEARS MAN IN SLAYING

DNA evidence helped clear a former Boy Scout leader convicted in the 1984 dismemberment slaying of a woman whose headless torso was found on a riverbank.

"I never doubted for a moment that it would happen," Donald Ruby said Friday, a day after he was acquitted in his second trial. "The question was: when?"

He spent six years in prison since after his 1987 conviction in the slaying of Edna M. Posey.

Ruby was legal guardian of Posey's teen-age son. At the first trial, prosecutors claimed he was a pedophile who killed the woman to prevent her from reclaiming custody of the boy.

- Associated Press

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