Based on the science of the day, Judy Lord’s next-door neighbor wasn’t charged with her murder in 1975, but modern DNA testing has determined that decision was wrong.

Lord, 22, was found dead inside her Concord apartment 50 years ago with her 20-month-old son found unharmed in an adjourning room. Lord had been raped and strangled.

At a news conference Monday, Attorney General John Formella said FBI microscopic analysis — a technique that has since been debunked — concluded in 1975 that the hair of Ernie Theodore Gable, then 24, did not match five hairs found on Lord’s body.

Soon after the murder, Concord Police confirmed that fingerprints found on the window outside Lord’s unit in the Concord Garden Apartments matched Gable’s. Family members and neighbors told police at the time that Ga

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