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New look at Martin Tankleff trial

Over 10 warm spring weeks in 1990, 12 men and women gathered in a stuffy courtroom to sit in judgment of a Belle Terre student charged in one of the most horrific crimes Suffolk County had ever known.

After deliberating for eight days, the Riverhead jury convicted Martin Tankleff, then 19, of murdering his mother, Arlene, and father, Seymour.

Tankleff had served 17 years of a 50-years-to...

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