2026-09-28T20:58:32-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
犹他州一名法官于周一下令，一名因1985年一起谋杀案被判死刑、在死囚区度过数十年的71岁男子准予保释出狱。尽管受害者家属提出反对，但检察官表示，新分析的DNA证据显示此人并非真凶。
道格拉斯·斯图尔特·卡特于同年被陪审团裁定犯有谋杀伊娃·奥莱森罪，伊娃是当时普罗沃警察局局长的姑姑，他因此被判处死刑。
州最高法院去年以调查人员存在不当行为为由下令重审。卡特一直坚称自己无罪，并表示那份签字供词是被迫作出的。
没有任何实物证据将他与犯罪现场联系起来，但陪审团基于这份供词以及两名声称曾听他吹嘘杀害白人女性奥莱森的证人，认定这名黑人男子有罪。这两名证人后来都翻供了。
2026年9月28日周一，前死囚道格拉斯·斯图尔特·卡特在犹他州普罗沃第四地区法院参加保释听证会。里克·伊根/《盐湖论坛报》 via 美联社泳池拍摄
德里克·普尔兰法官表示，新的DNA分析进一步削弱了对卡特的指控，但合理的陪审团仍有可能认定他谋杀了奥莱森。
普尔兰下令，卡特在获释期间必须佩戴GPS监控设备，且不得与奥莱森的家属接触。
辩护律师尼尔·汉密尔顿表示，卡特将被安置在其儿子的家人附近的长期住宿机构。他的儿子在婴儿时期就被其他家庭收养，多年后才得知父亲的定罪情况。汉密尔顿说，卡特还需要接受治疗，以应对长期被监禁带来的心理创伤。
“事情绝非‘放他走’这么简单，”汉密尔顿说，“他带着41年国家强加的创伤被释放，这种影响对他来说非常真实。”
被告称供词系被迫作出
普尔兰原定于2027年进行为期两个月的重审，但犹他县检察官上周撤回了寻求死刑的通知。
检察官表示，9月22日得出的DNA分析结果排除了卡特的嫌疑，证明他并非在门把手上发现的血迹以及刺杀奥莱森所用刀柄上提取的遗传物质的匹配对象。奥莱森同时遭到枪击。
汉密尔顿在2025年8月告诉哥伦比亚广播公司，犯罪现场发现的DNA证据曾两次与联邦调查局的数据库进行比对，卡特自1995年起就被纳入该数据库，但未找到匹配结果。他当时表示，尚不清楚是否存在其他匹配对象。
犹他县检察官欧文·佩蒂洛斯周一告诉法官，重新评估卡特的保释申请“必要且公平”，该州仍在继续审查案件中的剩余证据。
卡特是芝加哥本地人，1985年2月27日奥莱森遇害时，他正和母亲住在犹他州。法庭文件显示，调查最终将矛头指向卡特，怀疑他在抢劫过程中杀害了奥莱森。
到同年4月，卡特因涉嫌一起无关的袭击案而逃离犹他州。他于当年6月在田纳西州纳什维尔被捕，期间在普罗沃一名侦探的审讯下签署了供词。
汉密尔顿去年在接受哥伦比亚广播公司采访时还表示，卡特和他同时被捕的朋友被关押了两天。
“他们不会男女混押。所以道格就眼睁睁看着他的朋友因为他拒不认罪而遭遇的后果，”汉密尔顿说，“道格一直都说，他认罪的唯一原因就是为了救他的朋友。”
卡特后来表示，在警方的反复威胁下，他作出了虚假供词。在那场没有传唤任何辩方证人的审判后，他被定罪并判处死刑。1992年重审后，他再次被判处死刑，犹他州法院此后驳回了卡特的多次上诉。
关键证人称警方曾向他们提供现金和礼物
2011年出现了转折点，当年在初审中作证的两名证人在墨西哥被找到。他们称曾被警方指使在法庭上作伪证，警方还给了他们现金和礼物，并告诫他们不得透露这笔钱款。他们还表示，警方和检察官威胁他们及其儿子，如果不指证卡特就将他们驱逐出境。
此后经历了十多年的法律拉锯战，犹他州最高法院去年以警方和检察官“多次故意不当行为”为由下令重审。应法院要求，该案证据进行了DNA分析，检察官表示结果已于上周出炉。他们周一拒绝透露是否会利用该DNA证据搜寻其他匹配嫌疑人。
受害者丈夫曾为潜在嫌疑人
卡特的辩护律师表示，有证人看到一名白人男子逃离犯罪现场，一名调查人员隐瞒了指向其他嫌疑人的证据，其中包括受害者的丈夫奥拉·奥莱森。
他们指控检察官原本即将对奥拉提出指控，但普罗沃警察局一名中尉要求他们不要这么做，以便他能继续调查。根据法庭文件，卡特很快就被认定为嫌疑人。
奥拉·奥莱森是一名油漆承包商，2009年去世。他告诉警方，他在家中发现妻子死亡，妻子身体部分赤裸，双手被反绑在背后。
伊娃·奥莱森的儿媳特蕾莎·奥莱森在周一的保释听证会上表示，她的家人对卡特获释“深感担忧”。她说他应该继续留在犹他县监狱，等待重审期间一直被关押在那里。
“天哪，我们本来希望能有明确的匹配结果，”奥莱森在谈到DNA分析结果时说，“这并不意味着他当时不在现场。”
“还有其他因素，希望调查能继续下去，”她补充道，“我们只是想为伊娃讨回公道。如果他确实参与其中，我们希望真相大白。”
Man who spent decades on death row in Utah ordered released on bail after no DNA match
2026-09-28T20:58:32-0400 / CBS/AP
A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing to be released on bail, despite objections from the victim’s family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
Douglas Stewart Carter was sentenced to death that same year after a jury found him guilty of murdering Eva Olesen, an aunt of the Provo police chief at the time.
The state Supreme Court ordered a new trial last year, citing misconduct by investigators. Carter has maintained his innocence and says a signed confession was coerced.
No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene, but the jury convicted Carter, a Black man, based on the confession and two witnesses who said he bragged about killing Olesen, who was White. Those witnesses later recanted.
Former death row inmate Douglas Stewart Carter appears in 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, for a bond hearing on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool
Judge Derek Pullan said that the new DNA analysis further undermined the case against Carter, but a reasonable jury still could conclude that he murdered Olesen.
Pullan ordered Carter to wear a GPS monitor as a condition of his release and to avoid contact with Olesen’s family.
Defense attorney Neal Hamilton said Carter will be placed in an extended-stay accommodation near the family of his son, who was adopted by another family as an infant and didn’t learn about the conviction until years later. Carter also will need therapy to deal with his extended incarceration, Hamilton said.
“It’s not just as simple as, ‘Let’s let him go,’” Hamilton said. “He’s being released with 41 years of state-induced trauma and the effect it will have on him is very real.”
Defendant says confession was coerced
Pullan had scheduled a two-month retrial for 2027, but last week Utah County prosecutors withdrew a notice that they intended to seek the death penalty.
The prosecutors said results of a DNA analysis received Sept. 22 exclude Carter as a possible match to blood found on a doorknob and genetic material recovered from the handle of a knife used to stab Olesen, who was also shot.
Hamilton told CBS News in August 2025 that the DNA evidence found at the crime scene was run against the FBI’s database twice, which Carter has been a part of since 1995, and no matches were returned. He said at the time it was unclear whether there were other matches.
Utah County prosecutor Erwin Petilos told the judge Monday that reassessing Carter’s bail was “necessary and fair” as the state continues to look at the remaining evidence in the case.
Carter, a Chicago native, had been living with his mother in Utah at the time of Olesen’s killing on Feb. 27, 1985. Court documents indicate the investigation eventually focused on Carter, who was suspected of killing Olesen during a robbery.
By that April, Carter had fled Utah believing he was a suspect in an unrelated assault case, according to court documents. He was apprehended that June in Nashville, Tennessee, where Carter signed a confession while under interrogation from a Provo detective.
Hamilton also told CBS News in an interview last year that Carter was held for two days, along with his friend, who was arrested at the same time.
“They don’t house men and women together. So Doug was literally kept with a front row seat of the consequences of his failure to confess,” Hamilton said. “Doug said and has always said that the only reason he confessed was to save his friend.”
Carter said later that he had given a false confession after being repeatedly threatened by police. He was convicted and sentenced to death after a trial in which the defense called no witnesses. He was again sentenced to death after a 1992 retrial, and courts in Utah rejected numerous appeals from Carter in subsequent years.
Key witnesses say police gave them cash and gifts
A turning point came in 2011, when the two witnesses at his original trial were tracked down in Mexico. They said they had been told to lie in court and were given cash and gifts by police who told them not to disclose the payments. They also said police and prosecutors threatened them and their son with deportation if they did not implicate Carter.
More than a decade of legal wrangling followed before the Utah Supreme Court last year ordered a new trial, citing “multiple instances of intentional misconduct” by police and a prosecutor. A DNA analysis of the evidence was conducted in response to that order, and prosecutors said the results arrived last week. They declined Monday to say whether they’re using the DNA evidence to search for other suspects with matching DNA.
Victim’s husband was potential suspect
Carter’s defense attorneys have said witnesses saw a White man fleeing the crime scene and an investigator suppressed evidence pointing to other suspects, including the victim’s husband, Orla Olesen.
They allege that prosecutors were close to filing charges against the husband, but a Provo police lieutenant asked them not to so he could continue investigating. Carter was identified as a suspect soon after, according to court documents.
Orla Olesen, a painting contractor who died in 2009, told police he found his wife dead in their home, partially undressed and with her hands tied behind her back.
Theresa Olesen, a daughter-in-law of Eva Olesen, said during Monday’s bond hearing that her family had “serious concerns” about Carter’s release. She said he should remain in the Utah County jail, where he was being held pending a new trial.
“By golly we were hoping for a concrete match,” Olesen said of the DNA analysis. “It doesn’t mean he wasn’t there.”
“There are other factors and hopefully the investigation will continue,” she added. “We just want justice for Eva. And if he had any part of it we want that to be known.”
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