I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in an earlier post, but I'm not going to go back over all these pages to check. On the 20/20 special, the box is taken down where they supposedly had the crime scene evidence stored. They show the journalist the tube the vaginal swab was in, unrefrigerated apparently for 30 years. On the side of the box it says, "Suspect Hennis". This is supposed to be crime scene evidence and samples from the bodies, yet they label the box with his name. Recently I watched the Death Row Stories episode again and noticed something I didn't before. They have a different box, but it is supposed to again be crime scene evidence and samples from the victims. On the side of the box it is clearly written in large letters "Hennis Homicide". I think the prejudice in that is blatant, as it should say Eastburn Homicide to my thinking.
If this is where they stored the samples, the boxes labeled that way tell me that the samples they took from Hennis are likely also in the same box. What an easy way to contaminate the evidence from the scene with samples from him. They said in the 2nd trial there was no semen sample left, yet they say they found 2 new ones 30 years later. I'm wondering if they took the saliva samples taken from him and mixed it in or just relabeled it as the vaginal swab, or contaminated it. They did something hinky in this. It's really scary how a group of humans can behave when they want to get someone. The thing is if they were ever caught having done something like that, they can just claim it was accidental contamination.
I have come to believe that the crime scene evidence and samples from victims need to be kept in separate facilities entirely from suspect samples or prison collected DNA material. And the people should not have access to one another, if that makes sense. For example, the clothing and biological tubes from the Eastburn house and victims should be in a lab in one building, and the blood and buccal swabs from Hennis and any other suspects, as well as blood/dna samples routinely taken from convicted criminals should be stored in a completely different building. People who work in Building A cannot have any access to material from Building B, and vice/versa. Nor shall police be able to check out evidence. They reveal the results of each other's testing, and computer results, but they can't physically handle each other's samples or evidence. This could really cut down on accidental contamination and deliberate planting of evidence. Now that DNA is such a lock, it is just too easy to make sure a suspects' dna appears on an incriminating piece of evidence for unscrupulous police and techs. Some may actually believe they are doing something noble if they truly believe the person is guilty.
I guess Cone has not been arrested again? If so just wondering if his DNA may now be on file and could be checked. Another question. I thought that in the original investigations and trials it was said that the semen and Hennis' blood type did not match. Am I mistaken about that? Because I haven't been able to reconcile that with them now saying the DNA matches if that was true.
I wish Whisnant would update his book and rerelease it.
