Accused slayer freed

Associated Press · [ca. May 1971]

Mahwah, N.J. - Victoria Zielinski was a 15-year old Ramsey high school student when she was killed in March 1957. The man convicted of killing her, Edgar Smith, who has been on death row longer than any other man in the U.S. has won the right to a new trial from the U.S. Circuit court of appeals in Newark.