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Interesting site: http://whyfiles.org/192forensic_anthro/index.html Have you all seen this site before? I found it just now when I was looking for a source on whether body farms in the US study the retrieval of "leached" DNA from soil at locations where bodies have decomposed. Also I am...

Yes, under normal circumstances, I think we can presume exactly that. There's no reason for LE to withhold facts that are innocuous. But the DNA info we've been discussing wasn't released to the public under normal circumstances. It was leaked, and so the leaked content was outside the...

The thing I don't understand about this is: When you have a DNA sample interpreted, what you get back is a series of letters that represent the values in each of the positions of the chromosomes that make up the DNA. IIRC, Y-DNA is read as mostly a series of "repeats," and the number of...

BBM Please forgive me for stating the obvious, but "multiple" just means "more than one," right? You have JM's DNA, and you have MH's DNA, both on the t-shirt. More than one. No reason to believe, in what we've seen so far, that anyone else's DNA was present. If I'm wrong about that, please...

BBM. That bolded sentence refutes my theory, if it's true, but it is the reporter's interpretation, and not the direct, quoted text from the warrant. I think I prefer to base my opinions on the source document rather than someone else's interpretation of it. I don't really have any...

The statements do not say this. They refer to (1) JM's DNA in the diffuse stain, and (2) the DNA from the majority of the inside of the t-shirt that matches the cigar butt tip. For that matter, there is no specific reference to semen. It seems probable that semen was present, but that is just...

What if someone from the 7 Night Sleepover found the shirt at AF, and then later left it out on the bush on 15th Street? Could that someone have found the shirt but not found Morgan at the same time? I would think, if they got anywhere close to her location, they'd have known something was...

JM could also have wiped himself with the t-shirt, which would leave both his semen and his skin cells behind. Jmo.

I suggested that as a possibility, in response to Evie's concern that there may have been a mixture of DNA on the cigar butt tip. However, in the warrant excerpt, there is no suggestion or statement to the effect that there was a mixture of DNA on the cigar butt tip.

Alright, one more time. I'll really try to be clear. 1. We do not know that the "diffuse stain" from the t-shirt was blood. The DNA statement does not specify. 2. We do know that the testing of the "diffuse stain" yielded a DNA mixture, the DNA of more than one individual. Imo, this...

Has anyone else ever said that Morgan was wearing a coat? I'm not sure I believe that these were actually sightings of Morgan. How many blonde girls wearing all black would be at a Metallica concert in a college town? I think JM was "cruising" the JPJ Arena in his taxicab, and picked...

AFAIK they have never said anything any more specific than "a farm in Albemarle County."

...or...maybe JM rolled a blunt and offered it to Morgan... If she was already intoxicated, it may be that a little extra something would have been enough to put her "out." Convenient for JM. It's MH's DNA on the cigar butt tip, imo. Plain as the nose on my face. Now, I promise, I am not...

It's as clear as a bell to me, too. I hope we'll find out for sure from LE at some point. Surely such things will be discussed at trial, if that ever comes to pass.

Here is a statement that LE had the authority to take an involuntary sample after JM was returned to Virginia (after being arrested in Texas). So even if Texas LE didn't take the sample, I can't believe Virginia LE didn't take one, once they had the right to do it. And remember, this would...

I don't think we have enough information to say for sure whose DNA is on the cigar butt tip. All I have been trying to do is to read the DNA statements precisely, and not jump to conclusions that cannot be reliably determined by the information in those statements. I personally think that MH's...

It depends. If JM's DNA was on it but was only "touch" DNA, then it would most probably only be on the outside. DNA from saliva could presumably be found, unmixed, on the inside. Correct, in theory at least?

I hope I am right, because if I am, JM is SO up the creek without a paddle.

Please, y'all, can we look at this again? Can you all bear with me for a minute while I beat this up a bit? I feel that it is important to keep these two statements about DNA separate, and not assume that both are talking about JM. The article does not say that the stain was on the inside of...

What if Morgan smoked the cigar? If you read this post carefully, there are two separate sections of information about the DNA. One section says that there is a match from a mixture profile to the DNA collected in the Fairfax case. The second section talks about the DNA from the cigar butt...