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A Wisconsin jury couldn't find a man guilty of committing a double murder ... even though the police say he confessed to the crimes.

Tony Haase -- a 54-year-old man -- was acquitted on a pair of murder charges in August ... and his story was the subject of Friday night's episode of "Dateline" titled "Raising the Dead."

Here's the deal ... back in March 1992, Tanna Togstad , 23, and Timothy Mumbrue , 35, were found dead inside Togstad's farmhouse. Togstad suffered multiple stab wounds, while Mumbrue was killed by a single stab wound to the chest.

Fast forward three decades to 2022 ... and, cops -- having identified Tony Haase as a potential suspect -- staged a traffic stop and obtained some of Haase's DNA and ran it against DNA collected after the bodies were found i

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