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Cops want a swab of accused serial killer Rex Heuermann's DNA
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office is asking a justice to allow prosecutors to swab Rex Heuermann's cheek for further DNA after collecting a sample off a pizza crust and napkin.
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In papers filed in the Suffolk County Criminal Court on Tuesday, officials at the District Attorney's Office said investigators want to compare DNA from Heuermann's cheek with DNA recovered from the pizza crust and napkin he tossed out in January.
The DNA profile created from the pizza crust and napkin is a 99.96 percent match with the DNA profile created from hair recovered from the 'bottom of the burlap' bag used to transport Waterman's naked body, according to the documents obtained by the New York Daily News.
Without the sample, Assistant District Attorney Michelle Haddad argued, forensic biologists would only be able to reference the pizza crust and napkin as being 'purported to be used/touched' by Heuermann.
A cheek swab, she said, 'would provide further relevant evidence of the defendant's identity as the perpetrator of these crimes.'
Haddad also requested that a Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice allow police officers to photograph and video record the cheek swabbing process.