DNA evidence released Wednesday points to accused serial killer Eddie Lee Mosley in the 1984 slaying of Teresa Giles, the sixth murder linked to Mosley in a flurry of genetic testing over the past several months.

Surviving relatives of Giles, who died at age 22, said they hoped that the new evidence will bring Mosley to justice. Her raped and strangled body was recovered near a church altar on Dec. 18, 1984, one of several similar murders that haunted a northwest Fort Lauderdale neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s.

``I do believe you reap what you sow. No crime should go unpunished,'' said Cynthia Burgess, who said Giles was her uncle's girlfriend. ``She was very sweet, very giving, a very compassionate person.''

Prosecutors charged Mosley with the Giles murder in 1987. But a judge ruled him mentally incompetent to stand trial, and the charge was dropped. Mosley, now 54, remains confined in the Tacachale Center for developmentally disabled adults in Gainesville and is undergoing a new psychological evaluation.

If a judge finds Mosley competent, prosecutors likely will charge him with the Giles murder and five others linked to him by DNA evidence.

``It certainly makes the case that we had presented years ago stronger,'' said Charles Morton, chief of the Broward State Attorney homicide division.

Steven Michaelson, an attorney for Mosley, said his fitness to stand trial remains the most pressing concern.

``The question is whether or not he's competent,'' Michaelson said. ``We don't believe he's any more competent now than he was when he was hospitalized in the late '80s.''

Giles' death is one of about a dozen slayings from the 1970s and 1980s that prosecutors are revisiting with modern DNA technology to find possible genetic links to Mosley. The work is a collaboration between the Broward State Attorney, the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Fort Lauderdale Police.

The sweeping review began after investigators discovered DNA matches to Mosley in a pair of murders blamed on other men. In the most dramatic case, Frank Lee Smith went to Death Row and died of cancer before DNA evidence last December linked Mosley to the 1985 slaying of 8-year-old Shandra Whitehead.

Suspected in a string of rape-murders in the Dillard High School area of Fort Lauderdale and unincorporated Broward, Mosley has yet to stand trial for a single slaying because of his retarded mental state.

Giles' family last saw her on the way to the store. Her body was recovered inside United Church of God, 1151 NW 27th Ave. in unincorporated Broward.

Prosecutors were set to go to trial against Mosley in 1987 on charges that he murdered Giles and Emma Cook, 54, found raped and strangled in a deserted concrete shed on Christmas Eve, 1983. They said he had confessed to both crimes, although no physical evidence tied Mosley to the Giles murder.

But a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial, citing psychiatric testimony that Mosley had the intelligence of an 8-year-old.

Investigators say they were confident all along the DNA test on semen recovered from the Giles crime scene would match Mosley.

``We did not have any doubt about the outcome of this,'' said Cheryl Stopnick, spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff's Office.

DNA evidence against Mosley began piling up in October, when genetic testing linked him to the murder of 13-year-old Sonja Marion at a Dillard High ballfield. Another man, Jerry Frank Townsend, was wrongly blamed for that crime.

Frank Lee Smith's exoneration followed. In April, DNA evidence matched Mosley to three more murders -- two of them formerly blamed on Townsend.

Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne ordered a review of evidence against Mosley, Townsend and several Death Row inmates in March in response to the controversy sparked by the initial DNA findings against Mosley.

The inquiry appears to be spreading beyond those cases. Prosecutors and public defenders have agreed to test DNA evidence from a 1983 killing that put a Miramar teen in prison for life, according to Broward State Attorney spokesman Ron Ishoy.

Anthony Caravella was convicted of the rape and stabbing death of Ada Cox Jankowski, 58, largely on the strength of taped confessions. His attorneys believe DNA evidence may prove his innocence