Two men, including a former police officer, have been acquitted in the slayings of two western Kentucky brothel workers 22 years ago.
A jury acquitted 46-year-old Ed Carter and 42-year-old Frank Black of murder Wednesday in the cold-case deaths of 18-year-old Gloria Ross and 22-year-old Candace Belt. The women were shot and stabbed at New Life Massage Parlor in Oak Grove in September 1994.
Carter was an Oak Grove police officer who authorities say was seeing a prostitute and taking money from the brothel's owners. Carter and Black were charged in 2013.
The prosecution never presented evidence linking Carter and Black, who lived in Clarksville and worked at a Nashville hotel.
Carter's attorney Michael Bufkin says the case was based on suspicion, not evidence.
