Former Spring Grove man serving life in prison for killing his girlfriend in 1992 cites new DNA testing in motion

Former Spring Grove man serving life in prison for killing his girlfriend in 1992 cites new DNA testing in motion

Attorneys are seeking to have DNA retested from evidence tied to a decades-old murder conviction of a former Spring Grove man who also is a former Lake County police officer and firefighter/paramedic.John Cumbee, 63, who is serving a life sentence in the Sheridan Correctional Center, was convicted in two separate trials for the murder of his 21-year-old girlfriend Kathy Twarowski on May 5, 1992.Her body was found at 6:45 a.m. the next day in the…