A man who will be retried later this year for the 1980 rape and murder of a UW-Madison student will see his sordid past revealed to the jury.
Sophisticated, modern DNA testing has already refuted a key piece of evidence in Ralph Armstrong’s first trial, when he was convicted in 19-81 of the deadly violence against student Charise Kamps. Last year, the state supreme court ordered a retrial for Armstrong in reaction to the scientific testing which ruled out hairs on Kamps’ bathrobe belonging to Armstrong.