Jessica Currin was found dead in the small town of Mayfield, Kentucky, in 2000, and the man serving a life sentence in the 18-year-old's brutal murder has been granted a new evidentiary hearing, a quarter of a century after the crime was committed.

On July 29, 2000, Currin disappeared -- never to be seen alive again, leaving an infant son behind. In 2008, Quincy Cross was convicted of capital kidnapping, murder, first-degree rape and sodomy, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse, and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

On Thursday, the special judge in the case granted an evidentiary hearing on recanted testimony that will allow Cross' lawyers to present evidence in an effort to convince a judge to either vacate the conviction or grant a n

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