Cuomo to probe unsolved murder case after conviction overturned

NEW YORK -- New York's attorney general will lead a new investigation into the 1988 murders of a Long Island couple whose son served 17-years in prison before an appeals court said he might be innocent.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Saturday appointed Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as a special prosecutor in the case of Arlene and Seymour Tankleff, who were bludgeoned and stabbed to death in their Belle Terre home.

"I'm confident that we can look at it independently with a top team of prosecutors that will follow the evidence wherever it leads," Cuomo said.