I can't seem to find an update yet for this 10-year mark. I certainly hope LE and the media have not forgotten Audrey! In the absence of anything new/recent, here's something from earlier I don't recall seeing posted on WS (apologies if I missed something):
This following excerpt is from Susan Clairmont's long-ish piece, "
Meet the latest DNA crime-fighting possibilities" (July 2020?) at
www.pressreader.com.
There's a lot of general (and interesting) info there on DNA collection. I'm not sure if the order of info in the article obliquely suggests (??) that Audrey was sexually
assaulted (remember Hrab suggested there was a "sexual component" -- but we also know that a later theory posits the scene may have been staged to throw investigators off). So we don't know if Audrey was the victim of sexual assault or not, and/or what kind of DNA was collected at the scene. Anyway -- the article at least tells us there is mixed DNA in Audrey's case which I don't recall knowing before. (Mixed DNA and forensics testing has been discussed in the Sonia Varaschin case, however.) Again re: order of info in the piece: is there some intimation there was contamination at Audrey's scene -- or are all these bits of info dropped in alongside each other random? The news story is largely about Sgt. Annette Huys, Hamilton PS’s "most senior forensics officer." You may recall she was the key forensics specialist in the Tim Bosma murder case. From the article cited above:
".... The ability to separate mixed DNA may be especially useful in rape cases where a vaginal swab contains a mix of the victim’s DNA and semen.
Last year, Huys resent exhibits from the unsolved Audrey Gleave homicide scene back to CFS to take advantage of the new mixed DNA testing.
Audrey, a retired high school teacher, lived alone in her Lynden home for 37 years before being killed in her garage in December 2010.
Anyone entering the DNA Unit at the CFS — even the maintenance guy who changes a light bulb — must first give a DNA sample.
This is a safeguard against contamination.
The reality, says Tessarolo, is that once a year or so, there is contamination of evidence in the white, sparse, meticulously cleaned unit where 80 biologists wear disposable paper lab coats, hair nets, masks and gloves.
The good news is, when there is contamination, the lab is able to explain it by comparing the contaminated sample to the DNA of every person authorized to enter the unit.
'You’re never going to prevent every event,' says Tessarolo. 'It’s inevitable. We focus on detecting it.'
Once it is detected, the lab investigates to determine how the contamination happened. Was it insufficient cleaning? An error in handling? Once the problem is identified, steps can be taken to lessen the chance of it happening again."
What are the results of the "resent exhibits" ???????? Why haven't we heard more?
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