OK this is new to me.
It would be interesting to know what they scraped and how they would know that the DNA found by this method would be the DNA of the perp.
I’m with you. One other question about this type of new DNA analysis, has this house been sold and other people living there? If so, then maybe the new evidence is from one of them.
They scraped the leggings the child was wearing. I still don’t see how this clears the Ramsey’s. I mean someone who washed the clothes for the family may have got some skin cells on the clothes, but it doesn’t make him the killer. Also, the DA in the case is very close to the Ramsey’s attorney. I think this case is still being mishandled!
A good question. I have followed a number of cases with this in mind. It is that prosecuting authorities were caught like a deer in the headlights, with this great breakthrough in DNA.
All the defence initially had to do was to find a DNA that did not identify the accused. So far so good- indeed why not?
A case in Canada when a poor teen age girl was strangled. She was the clerk at an all night coffee shop in Winnipeg. A pair of gloves was found nearby. The defence set up a scream, saying "it was NOT his DNA". No indeed, a man was found not guilty after two trials and got over two million dollars compensation. I lost a brand new glove near a liquor store once. Never found it again. If the liquor store was hit and an employee murdered, my glove could have exonerated the perp. This using that logic.
We now know that if a factory operative sneezed over a garment, or quickly wiped their fingers on it, then packed it- DNA would be on the garment.
I am sorry for the Ramseys. That ransom note haunts me to this day. I cannot believe that an outsider wrote that note.
The bottom of the barrel.
Ramsey Press Release (excerpt)
DNA clears JonBenet Ramsey’s family
The unexplained third party DNA on the clothing of the victim is very significant and powerful evidence. It is very unlikely that there would be an innocent explanation for DNA found at three different locations on two separate items of clothing worn by the victim at the time of her murder.
This is particularly true in this case because the matching DNA profiles were found on genetic material from inside the crotch of the victim’s underwear and near the waist on both sides of her long johns, and because concerted efforts that might identify a source, and perhaps an innocent explanation, were unsuccessful. (snip)
http://www.bouldercounty.org/newsroom/templates/?a=1256&z=13