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To: Auntie Mame
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/sand/news/stories/news-152365520020620-200629.html

This is a new article mind you..but it can be confirmed in the transcripts.

Lewis Maddux, laboratory director of Orchid Cellmark of Germantown, Md., said his firm received DNA from a blood stain on Westerfield's jacket.

"I conclude, with a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, that the DNA came from Danielle van Dam," Maddux said.

He said the odds of another match were one in 57 quadrillion, equal to 57 plus 15 zeroes.

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Were you able to calculate an estimate of how rare those matching profiles were between Danielle van Dam and the carpet stain, item 84?" prosecutor George "Woody" Clarke asked the DNA analyst.

"Yes, I was," Peer answered.

"With regard to the Caucasian population, what is the approximate likelihood of someone chosen at random from that population, having a set DNA genetic type that was found in both the carpet stain and Danielle van Dam?" Clarke asked Peer.

"That frequency would be -- in the Caucasian population -- approximately one in 130 quadrillion," she said.

477 posted on 09/16/2002 10:12:22 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Nobody questions that her blood was on the jacket. The relevant question is: how did it get there? The spot was small enough, IIRC, that it could have come from one of her nosebleeds.
494 posted on 09/16/2002 11:31:14 PM PDT by drlevy88
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