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New DNA link cited at Kalila Taylor trial

A handout image of Kalila Taylor who is

Photo credit: SCPD/Handout | A handout image of Kalila Taylor who is being tried in the 1996 killing of Curtisha Morning.

Blood smears on the boots and pants cuffs of a Riverhead High School homecoming queen who was hacked to death contain DNA that matches the woman on trial in connection with the murder, a forensic scientist testified Monday.

Kalila Taylor, now 35, is on trial for the second time on charges of killing Curtisha Morning, 17, on the edge of the school's athletic field in February 1996. Taylor was...

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