Virginia’s attorney general is asking the state appeals court to review a panel’s ruling that exonerated a former Navy SEAL trainee in the abduction and slaying of a Georgia college student. Bill Mims filed a petition Tuesday asking the full Virginia Court of Appeals to rehear the case of Dustin Turner of Bloomington, Ind. Mims questions the credibility of fellow trainee Billy Joe Brown, who said he alone killed Jennifer Evans while she was vacationing in Virginia. Mims says Brown’s two confessions were substantially different, but the trial court only knew about one of them.

The Virginia Court of Appeals yesterday overturned the first-degree murder conviction of a former Navy SEAL trainee in the 1995 slaying of college student Jennifer Lea Evans in Virginia Beach.

It has been 13 years since Jennifer Evans disappeared.  Richmond Times-Dispatch writer Bill Geroux has spent years covering the search, arrests, trials and appeals. His five-part series concludes today with a jailhouse interview with Dustin Turner.

VIRGINIA BEACH Not for one moment did Linda Summitt believe her son had killed Jennifer Evans. But she first recognized trouble in Dustin A. Turner’s voice when he called home to Bloomington, Ind., on June 27, 1995. “I have to tell you something,“ he said. “I witnessed a murder.“

PART 3: Detectives in Virginia Beach investigating Jennifer Evans’ disappearance soon turned their suspicions to two young men training to become Navy SEALs. The trainees, Dustin A. Turner and Billy Joe Brown, were an odd pair of best friends on their way to becoming members of the Navy’s elite commando force. SLIDESHOW

Jennifer Evan’s disappearance the early morning of June 19, 1995, began a nightmarish case of murder and betrayal. The case has spanned 13 years and could undergo a dramatic reversal.