2:10 p.m. UPDATE:
Forensic Examiner Travis Harvey with the Blacksburg Police Department was called to testify Thursday about the forensic exam was that performed on David Eisenhauer when he was arrested.
Evidence taken by a forensic nurse from Eisenhauer's body was entered into evidence.
Detective Mike Czernicki, with the Blacksburg Police Department, was called back to the stand after Harvey entered that forensic evidence into the courtroom.
Czernicki testified that the evidence was securely kept and unopened since its recovery.
Nicole Harold, the forensic biology section supervisor at the Virginia Department of Forensic Science was called to testify next.
She explained what DNA was to the jury. Multiple items collected during the investigation were entered into Harold's department for DNA analysis by investigators.
Harold examined some of those items and prepared a certificate of analysis confirming her findings.
She explained that certificate compares DNA samples taken from evidence and DNA taken from suspects in the case.
Harold said she obtained blood samples from Nicole Lovell, David Eisenhauer and Natalie Keepers and used those samples to compare against evidence taken.
She said during her investigation she found DNA under Nicole Lovell's fingernails. She said that she can eliminate Natalie Keepers DNA from that evidence, but could not eliminate David Eisenhauer's DNA.
Eisenhauer's DNA matched that evidence enough that Harold said she would only find that exact DNA one time out of 2.3 billion Caucasian people.
Using those same type of statistics, Harold also said the blood found on and in the car, as well as the blood found on items in the trunk, such as wet wipes and cleaning supplies, belong to Nicole Lovell.
Blood found on the shovel also belongs to Nicole Lovell.
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