TN - Chris Newsom, 23, & Channon Christian, 21, murdered, Knoxville, 6 Jan 2007 #6

[Muffet]

Now she's identifying other things, from other people - like the buccal swabs from Letalvis Cobbins.. all still in envelopes...

 

[Muffet]

ID'd floral fabric & sheer curtains we saw yesterday...

 

[Muffet]

I saw a glimpse of both sets of parents....

 

[Muffet]

Witness describing that she sprays a type of spray that works like luminol, but finds semen... makes it glow or another that changes color under light...

 

[Muffet]

Semen without sperm might contain skin or blood cells to get DNA...

now describing how she extracts the dna from fabric sample (pits it in a tube with a chem in it.. waits...anplifies... etc)

 

[Muffet]

doesn't always use a cutting from fabric - she sometimes uses a swabbing or scraping to get the dna...

 

[Muffet]

DNA standard = an individual's dna profile...

Now describing more tech practices... how she keeps things from cross contamination...

 

[Muffet]

Jaimie's Twitters:



* @Jamiescoop News Sentinel reporter Jamie Satterfield's Twitter coverage from the trials of the Christian/Newsom murders. Latest Tweet:

o jamiescoop: Graphic material aheas, be warned! Semen not enuff to get DNA, need skin cells r sperm in it, Millsaps says #cntrial
o jamiescoop: Millsaps uses black light like device to light up semen on cloth #cntrial
o jamiescoop: Little things that mean a lot - when Millsaps ID'd anal swabs of Channon, her dad dropped head down abruptly #cntrial
o jamiescoop: Wish I'd bought stock in surgical gloves before this trial, think we've gone thru couple dozen boxes #cntrial

 

[yolorado]

She's talking about lab proceedures to prevent contamination.

 

[Muffet]

Identifying a paper report as an accurate copy of one of her reports, issued march 12, 2007...

and another...july 6, 2007..

etc...

 

[yolorado]

Davidson has put on quite a lot of weight since his vid.

 

[Muffet]

ID'd 3 more reports - these issued in sept 2009

 

[yolorado]

The Christians look very somber. Newsomes too. Bless 'em.

 

[Muffet]

She had standards from

Davidson,
Cobbins


Thomas
boyd
vincent
coleman
daphne
rhonda dukes
lawson

& Chris & Channon

 

[Muffet]

IDing DNAfrom Channon's vaginal swab as Davidson's - odds of it being anyone else's exceeds number of world population - wouldn't expect this to be seen again..

audio cutting out...

 

[Muffet]

Sperm fractions ..... differential extraction is process to show sperm ... so they can diffrentiate between dna that came from sources other than sperm as well as from the sperm...

Channon's show in there, but that happens...

 

[yolorado]

IDing DNAfrom Channon's vaginal swab as Davidson's - odds of it being anyone else's exceeds number of world population - wouldn't expect this to be seen again..

audio cutting out...

Are you on WATE? Mine's ok here.

http://www.wate.com/global/Category.asp?c=173163

 

[Muffet]

there were a lot of vaginal sperm of davidson's...

now doing the anal swabs - there was his sperm there too...

 

[Muffet]

oral swabs - cobbins'

 

[Muffet]

white tank top - 2 stains...

stain a - had sperm
from non-sperm fraction was channon and inconclusive and cobbins (I thought she said only 2)