katydid23
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I think the analyst testified that there were numerous orange fibres on the car seats and on the victims clothing. They weren't just a couple of random ones that would have been there through washes and vacuum cleanings.The tiny fibres could be months old. That's the point -they can be transferred from clothing and hang around through one or more vacuum cleanings. I'd pick that there are a hell of a lot of other orange fleece hoodies around Bismark that could be matched to the fibres found because the fibres are generic.
There was a rapist/ murderer who worked for the Telecom in Perth who was recently convicted partly on fibre evidence but it was a specfic fibre from Telstra issued work pants. But in his case they got an EXact DNA match. I believe it was from a discarded drink bottle. He as followed into a picture theatre by Perth police who were scavenging for DnA. A rather different set of details. But the point is that the case would not have got up on circumstantial evidence plus the fibres.
As for all of these other orange fleece hoodies---how many of them were found in the defendants dryer, and looked exactly like the one seen walking into the Mandan business that day? It is pretty clear that the orange fibres on the victims clothing is going to be from the hoodie being worn by the suspect entering the building.
Then we can see that same suspect, leaving the crime scene and making his way back to his truck at McD's. How much of a coincidence is it that the defendant would be washing an identical mask and hoodie when police came knocking?
All those other random orange hoodies are not relevant because they cannot be traced along that murder timeline like the one submitted into the trial evidence was.