In their ruling issued Friday, the state’s highest court refused to hear Coley McCraney’s appeal of his guilty verdicts in the 1999 murders of Dothan teens J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett.

The analysis linked evidence that sat for years in a police freezer to Coley McCraney, 45, of Dothan, Alabama, police said. McCraney was taken into custody Friday and booked Saturday on rape and ...