09/05/2026
A judge issued a decision in a hearing Friday where David Leonard Wood's attorney requested testing on evidence from the 1987 serial killings.
Wood, who is 69 years old, is one of the oldest death row inmates. He was convicted of capital murder in 1992 for the deaths of six young girls and women whose bodies were dumped in the desert area of Northeast El Paso in 1987.
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