article_snippet: Tests revealed Woods' DNA is not on the evidence from Mitchell's (right) death scene .
article_snippet: Rodney L Halbower, an inmate in an Oregon penitentiary, recently submitted DNA evidence which now connects New suspect to a cigarette butt found on Mitchell's dead body .
article_snippet: Certainly, I wish police and juries had DNA evidence back then, but police and juries didn't,' Pusich said. '
article_snippet: police and juries just didn't have DNA evidence.'
article_snippet: Pusich and the FBI say DNA found on a Marlboro cigarette butt at the Reno crime scene suggests the real killer is a former Oregon inmate recently charged in the deaths of two women who were among five victims in the 'Gypsy Hill' murders near San Francisco about the same time Mitchell's throat was slashed.
article_snippet: Hicks DNA was obtained in 2013 when Hicks was sent to Oregon. '
highlights_snippet: New tests found a different inmate's DNA on the evidence .