The prosecution asks Bozinovski about the July 11, 2017 report on swabs from tree branches. She tells the jury these were done at the ISP post in Lafayette Ind. She says she converted a conference room into an exam room there. She tells the jury she examined branches for blood and skin cells and took several swabs and did lab testing at her main office.
Bozinovski said she found most of the branches did not have conclusive DNA and that 2 swabs tested positive for Libby’s blood profile.
Bozinovski told the jury how difficult it was to get swabs and recover DNA from the creek and says the challenge of testing hair was that it needs to have a skin tag at the root and that natural shedding doesn’t have much of a possibility for DNA testing.
She told the jury she did send a sample of human hair to the FBI that consisted of 72 hairs. The FBI told Bozinovski that 3 of the hairs were “not consistent” with Libby or Abby. She told the jury she chose not to test using “rootless” hair testing as there was not enough hairs to even send and there was a low success rate for the testing.
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