Very interesting read, but I still don’t get, with the horrific description of the attack, that no DNA of the CPA5 was found at the scene. How could there not be on their clothes, the victim’s fingernails?
I’m not saying they aren’t guilty of other stuff, but it seems unlikely that no DNA.
DNA testing was at its infancy stage way back then (1989).
As Ann Coulter, who followed the case closely observed:
The use of DNA to solve crimes was nearly unheard of in 1989. No police force in the country would look for DNA to make a case. It was only about a year earlier that DNA had been used for the first time in any criminal court in the U.S. (Florida).
The very month that the jogger was attacked, newspapers were excitedly reporting on a novel forensic technique, a “still unfolding laboratory discovery, a genetic ‘fingerprint’ created from the body’s deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA”—as the Chicago Tribune put it.
Even five years later, DNA evidence wasn’t enough to convict O.J. Simpson.
Her fingernails? They hit her with a pipe and and a rock. Do you think you would be able to scratch and claw after getting hit in the head with a pipe and a rock?