missy1974
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Chain of custody of all evidence related to SA is not bad. There are questions about the key and how it got there (but no issue with the key once it was collected and sent to the lab -- that's the "chain of custody"). As for the vial of blood, that blood is stored in a locked lab, so one needs to show who could have gotten access to it. Saying someone did and that their use was nefarious is not evidence.
Had SA gotten no cut on that finger on his right hand, his blood in the SUV would look suspicious. But here we have a person of interest, who was known to be with the victim immediately before she went missing, who had a very clear cut on the middle finger of his right hand, and that guy's blood is found in 6 places in the victim's SUV -- an SUV he had access to because he was with the victim and her SUV was at his house. Her blood and hair is found in the SUV and his as well. That's circumstantial evidence that shouldn't be ignored. Questioned, sure. Discarded, not so fast.
That vial of blood was NOT stored in a lab. It was stored at the bottom of a cardboard box that was sitting in the County Clerks office. The woman that testified said as much in her testimony. And that box was tampered with, the evidence tape was cut and it was closed back up using scotch tape. There was no record of who opened that box and no one came forward to say "oh hey, I did that, so sorry, my bad"