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Also, only one dog vest was given for testing, and there were two dogs, each in his own orange vest. Perhaps they thought that if they tested one, the other would be moot.

And IIRC, the blue-gray SUV fibers weren't collected until June, after the trial began. How long had they been there, and who had been in there in the interim? Someone or something (like a police jacket) that was common to the Danielle recovery site? Detectives sat in the back of his SUV for hours. Detectives wearing jackets were at every single site where all these fibers were found. It's not inconceivable that an innocent searcher or forensics collector could have carried and shed these fibers.

It's the lack of a SOURCE that invalidates the fiber testimony, in my own personal evaluation of the evidence.

It's the lack of a SOURCE that invalidates the fiber testimony, in my own personal evaluation of the evidence.

Thanks, Shezza

Establishing the REAL source would probably invalidate the whole case. If the Blue/Grey fibers did come from the LE's, if the orange did come from searchers/LE's/Dog handlers/Dogs, etc.

Think about it. The blue/grey fibers were found everywhere the LE's spent time. Searching the Washer/Dryer,In the SUV, standing over Danielle's body.

So - when Goff says that Faulkner should not have used the temperature regarding the maggot mass - because there aren't completed studies on that issue - that Faulkner should just have stuck with the ambient temp. reading only - does that mean that his estimate is more correct than Faulkner's? I dunno - they are doing the studies - the entomologists obviously think there is an increased effect on the temp. regarding the maggot mass - so Faulkner just wanted to try to be more accurate by factoring that in - even if he could not be 100% correct about it - he knew that just figuring using the ambient air temp was not accurate. So even if Haskell overestimated his temps regarding the maggot mass - going back to using the ambient air temps would be too much compensation back in the other direction - no?

Also, only one dog vest was given for testing, and there were two dogs, each in his own orange vest. Perhaps they thought that if they tested one, the other would be moot.

Wouldn't the dogs be wearing the same type of vest? How would dog vest fibers get in DW's bed and laundry and SUV and entwined in Danielle's necklace?

Detectives wearing jackets....It's not inconceivable that an innocent searcher or forensics collector could have carried and shed these fibers.

First, are these jackets "blue/gray"?

And second, if these jackets are prone to spreading fibers wherever they're worn, why don't all crime scenes show these fibers and the analyst would be used to coming across them and discarding?

(never mind the lack of evidence that transfer could have been made to Danielle's body sheet, DW's laundry and in his MH).