TAUNTON -- The attorney for convicted "cult killer" Carl Drew began to piece together his client’s case for a new trial by asking retired Fall River Detective Paul Carey a litany of questions pertaining to his initial investigation into the grisly 1980 slaying of Karen Marsden.

FALL RIVER -- Prosecutors attempting to keep convicted "cult murderer" Carl Drew behind bars have submitted a list of at least 26 witnesses they plan to call during Drew’s evidentiary hearing. The hearing could pave the way to a new trial for the man who has spent the past 24 years in prison for a crime he insists he never committed.

A Fall River teenager who pleaded guilty to a murder that reportedly may have been related to the activities of a satanic cult was given a life sentence yesterday to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham.