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  • How hobby yielded key clue (Jeanine Harms' Hobby Leads to Forensic Evidence Against her Killer)

    12/18/2004 9:21:59 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 8 replies · 1,031+ views
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | Sat, Dec. 18, 2004 | Connie Skipitares
    Ultimately, Jeanine Harms' hobby led investigators to charge Maurice Nasmeh with her murder. The forensic investigation was the stuff of TV's ``CSI,'' unfolding in real time, over 17 long months. Tiny yarn fragments from her hooked rug project, painstakingly collected from a carpet that investigators believed was used in disposing her body, were found to match yarn in Harms' home and fibers in the cargo area of Nasmeh's SUV.Mark Moriyama, a criminalist with the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Crime Laboratory, extracted thousands of fibers from the carpet by pressing 4-inch-square pieces of tape across its entire surface, and then...