A man serving life without parole for the 1999 rape and murder of a Rhode Island grandmother is now alleging that investigators planted DNA evidence as he seeks a new trial.
Jeremy Motyka, 50, was convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual assault in the killing of 66-year-old Angela Spence-Shaw. Her battered body was found in her bathtub at her Little Compton home over Memorial Day weekend, according to WPRI, the Providence Journal and EastBayRI.
Spence-Shaw was raped, beaten and left submerged in the bathtub with a plugged-in hair dryer, the outlets reported. Motyka was part of a construction crew renovating her Sakonnet Point Road home around the time of her death…