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DNA casts doubt in LI woman's 1994 murder case

John Grega on his way to his arraignment

Photo credit: Newsday/Don Jacobsen | John Grega on his way to his arraignment in Hauppauge. (Dec. 19, 1994)

Lawyers have asked for the release of a former Long Island man serving a life sentence in Vermont for the 1994 rape and murder of his wife after new analysis of DNA evidence cast doubt on his conviction.

John Grega, now 50, formerly of Lake Grove, was convicted less than a year after Christine Grega, 31, was found dead in a bathroom at the West Dover, Vt., condominium where the couple was...

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