Don't worry, I signed up with this website just to FINALLY exchange some ideas. I have nobody to do it with. This case has taken up wayyyy more of my time than it ever should have and so far I have never talked to any one because most of other websites have theories that clearly go against evidence. This is only website that I found that focuses on real data and members are educated on it.
Now to your response. Good point, I didn't think about that A-ha moment. I'll give it some thought and maybe check the interview with Lee again. It's definitely a possibility.
I think though that duct tape might stick to wet surfaces (well, according to MythBusters
, I never checked it myself). My thought is, do you think there would be no DNA on it whatsoever? I realize it was soaked for an extended period of time but still... nothing? I can understand there would be no fingerprints, I watched a show the other day when they found some fingerprints on gloves from a bag that was dumped in a river and stayed there for a long period of time and the examining person stated that this was rare since fingerprints would not survive water, but why no DNA? I wish they had released the evidence to the expert in Netherlands, he has a different technique of recovering it from very small samples...