Chris Watts' attorneys request for DNA samples suggest daughters were strangled
Newly released court documents (motion filed by defense to compel coroner to take DNA fromnecks.throats of the chuldren) -- suggest daughters may have been strangled.
In the motion filed Friday, DNA expert Richard Eikelenboom concludes that DNA evidence “would remain on the necks of the decedent children.”
[Eikelenboom is a forensic scientist who has claimed to be a DNA expert in trials in Colorado and across the United States, but was
discredited two years ago in a 2013 sex assault case in Denver District Court.]
The motion, which also indicates the children’s bodies were submerged in crude oil for four days, was dismissed by the judge.
The manner and cause of death of all three bodies are pending further laboratory results and will not be released at this time.