By Molly Moorhead, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
NEW PORT RICHEY — When neo-Nazi John Ditullio went to trial last year in a 2006 double stabbing, prosecutors presented letters he wrote, DNA evidence and numerous witnesses they said proved he was the killer.
The trial ended with a hung jury that nearly acquitted him.
On Wednesday, as Ditullio's retrial opened nearly five years after the crime, Assistant State Attorney Mike Halkitis promised a new jury a new piece of evidence: a broken piece of a knife.
He didn't outright say it was the murder weapon, which was never found. But he quoted from a poem Ditullio penned while in jail.
"The knife, the well, the things I hid well," Halkitis said Ditullio wrote.
The broken knife, Halkitis said, was discovered this year when another neo-Nazi told investigators that Ditullio had ditched it near a well at the ...