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To: marktuoni
there was a DNA match with a serial rapist who came forward earlier this year to confess to the jogger attack.

Does anyone know if this was the only DNA sample taken from the victim. I seem to recall that she had been raped multiple times. Would forensic testing be able to isolate different DNA molecules?

33 posted on 12/19/2002 9:20:15 AM PST by Attillathehon
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To: Attillathehon
Does anyone know if this was the only DNA sample taken from the victim. I seem to recall that she had been raped multiple times. Would forensic testing be able to isolate different DNA molecules?

Yes, sort of. With one semen sample from her, they could say fairly definitively whether any of the five was involved (in the rape at least) - even if there was DNA from another person there.

82 posted on 12/19/2002 3:01:13 PM PST by BearCub
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