WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The defense attorney for a former Marine accused of fatally stabbing two girls in Zion says he will argue at trial that one victim’s father previously exonerated in the killings is responsible.
Jorge Torrez is charged in the 2005 killings of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and 9-year-old Krystal Tobias. Authorities say DNA evidence matches Torrez, who was a 16-year-old friend of Tobias’ older brother at the time.
Defense attorney Jed Stone said in court Tuesday that the DNA evidence is “junk,” and that he’ll argue Jerry Hobbs killed the girls.
Hobbs was charged in the girls’ deaths after giving what he said was a false confession. He was in jail for five years before being released.
A date for Torrez’s trial hasn’t been set. He was sentenced to death in a sailor’s slaying in Virginia.
