Court reinstates conviction, sentence of ‘railroad spike murderer’

The man convicted of a railroad spike murder in Xenia will not get a new trial.

News Center 7 has previously reported that David Lee Myers was convicted of the 1988 murder of 18-year-old Amanda Maher in Xenia.

In 2020, lawyers with the Innocence Project claimed there was never-before-tested DNA found on Maher’s body and the handle of the railroad spike used to kill her.

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Myers was granted a new trial, and a judge overturned his conviction and sentence…

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