MESA, Ariz. -- Anthony M. Spears has spent the last seven years on death row for fatally shooting a woman in the desert outside Mesa and making off with her truck, her guns and her cash.
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He insists he didn't do it. And now an expert forensic entomologist says the evidence supports Spears' claim of innocence, the Tribune, a newspaper serving suburban Phoenix, reported Tuesday.Bug biology could refute the Jan. 4, 1992, date of death for Jeanette Beaulieu, a 38-year-old bookkeeper. The maggots that infested Beaulieu's body when it was found Jan. 19 indicate she died no earlier than Jan. 9, said David Faulkner, head of the entomology department at the San Diego Natural History Museum.