Had lunch with a friend today and was discussing the forensic evidence. She brought up a great point, and was really doubtful too that the Crown has much more DNA evidence than two types of blood identified as being on the gym bag. The term "mixture" is a strange one - to my mind mixture means "combination" like a cake batter. I think that the Crown may have used the word "mixture' for its effect on the jury so that they form in their minds that bliood from each party was mixed with that of the other. We will not know until the forensics report comes in if perhaps TS blood was found on the outside of the bag, and blood from MR found in a different place on the bag? Or the amount of blood found from each donor? In any case, with all the pulling and shoving of clothes and shoes in and out of the gym bag (if what TLM said is true) then transference is always an option. It may well be that while LE found the gym bag in the "back" of MR's car (since there was no back seat) that the bag would normally have resided in the trunk of that car. TLM never did mention anything about a gym bag being back there - only water bottles. What if MR cut himself taking out the backseat and some of this blood got on the gym bag at that time??? Now if the Crown had noted that two types of blood were found on each of the gym bag and the black coat, I might be more convinced that there was additional forensic evidence to be seen.
I do not think that too much evidence by way of DNA etc would have been found on TS' remains (the poor baby!) ... it was way too long til she was found. The length of time also makes me doubt that there will be any evidence of sexual abuse as TLM described or semen.
JMO
