The Case Of Pamela Maurer’s Murder Went Cold For Decades, Then Genetic Sleuthing By Parabon Helped Crack It

CBS Chicago ^ | January 15, 2020 | John Dodge

[Amberdawn]

I agree. Why give the government more power over us when the guilty go free due to untested rape kits?!

[Oatka]

Lindahl died at age 28 in 1981 after he bled to death while stabbing another victim, Charles Huber. The coroner said his knife wounds were accidentally self inflicted.

Karma is a . . .

[Oatka]

An actual case was about a woman who had a “civilian” job in a police department where fingerprints were taken and stored. She killed her husband in their car. Before that, she had somehow taken a couple of fingerprints of a person who had been arrested, and transferred them to the car door handle (IIRC, tape was involved).

About a year ago I read that the police somewhere in Germany thought they had a serial killer on their hands as a certain DNA kept appearing in tests. Couldn't find a commonality in the murders other than the DNA.

Finally, someone said "Wait a minute" and did some checking back up the line. Turned out that an employee was inadvertently contaminating the swabs during packaging.

I still am a firm believer in DNA evidence, but if I'm ever on a jury, I'm gonna take a closer look into the contamination charge brought up by the defense attorney.

[ladyjane]

Meanwhile tens of thousands of rape kits go untested leaving rapists free on the street.

[Gay State Conservative]

If you talk to criminal defense lawyers you find that they hate DNA when it shows their client to be guilty but love it when it shows their client to be innocent.

I love DNA because it lessens the chances of an innocent person being wrongly prosecuted/convicted *and* it increases the chances of a truly guilty person being caught and convicted.

Both of those are very worthy goals.