DNA, fingerprints cited in SW Minn. murder trial 
by The Associated Press

LUVERNE -- Seven years after a state park worker was killed, the man accused in her death is on trial in southwestern Minnesota. 

Jurors have heard opening statements in the murder trial of Randy Swaney. Swaney is charged with killing 20-year-old Carrie Nelson during a burglary at Blue Mounds State Park near Luverne. 

Assistant Attorney General Bill Klumpp says the state's case against Swaney will include DNA on a wristwatch and fingerprints on papers in the building where Nelson was killed with a rock on May 20th, 2001. 

Defense attorney Louis Kuchera (koo-CHEHR'-uh) is asking jurors to keep an open mind. 

Swaney was serving time in the South Dakota penitentiary for an unrelated conviction last year when authorities announced that DNA evidence linked him to the slaying.