City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle said his office found out at about 8 a.m. today from a lab in Louisiana that DNA samples submitted to be examined did not match Edmonds' DNA.

City prosecutors will formally ask that the charges be dropped. A hearing on that request is scheduled for Tuesday before Circuit Judge Marie Milks.

In the meantime, Edmonds, 46, was released from Oahu Community Correction Center this afternoon.

Bustamante and another teenage girl were kidnapped and taken to an area behind Pali Golf Course. Bustamante was killed by a shot to the back of the head, but the other girl escaped and called police.

Charges of murder and attempted murder were brought against Edmonds in 2001 after "cold case" specialist Bruce Warshawsky of the Pearl Harbor office of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service reopened the case and began questioning former Marines who served with Edmonds in 1975.

Edmonds had pleaded not guilty and denied any involvement in the incident.