Compassionate Reader
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MadamReporter, I've read the Bode DNA reports, and the closest thing to your claim I'm familiar with with is a hair which could be Terry Hobbs' or one of the many other people who share his mDNA, and which is labeled ""Hair from M. Moore ligature" documented here with no mention of if it was "found in the actual knot" or otherwise. Is there another hair which matches your description, or have you misunderstood the facts regarding the hair in the report I linked? Also, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the phenomena known as secondary transfer, and noting the variety of hairs with different mDNA noted in the the Bode report I linked that likely came other parents, friends, teachers and such people who traveled in the same circles as the children.
"Hair from M. Moore ligature" means "Hair in the knot." That's what a ligature is, after all. Yes, the mtDNA isn't exclusive to Hobbs. However, what mtDNA does tell us is that the hair belongs to Hobbs or to someone in his maternal line. Who else who was in West Memphis on May 5, 1993 and who was, by his own admission, at the scene fits the bill? Just curious.
As to the possibility that the Hobbs' hair is secondary transfer, although that is an outside possibility, it doesn't explain the Jacoby hair and it doesn't explain the unbelievable phenomenon of no biological samples from any of the convicted, even though two of them had much longer hair than Hobbs. (Boy, that ditch water was very selective in what it washed away!) Also, IIRC the Hobbs' hair is described somewhere as a beard (facial) hair. IMO, that makes secondary transfer less likely.