The phone timing is widely touted as some sort of proof. The postal police actually cannot establish the exact timing that is claimed. there is apparently surveillance camera footage with a time stamp that shows them still en route by car at the time RS made the call. The discrepancy is no more than a few minutes but if this is true it shows either uncertainty or something closer to tweaking facts to discredit RS. I am looking for where I originally saw this as it is actually very important to impeach the police version.
And prior to the call to the regular police RS made a call to his sister-in-law who is a policewoman. And the postal police as far as I know did not mention RS making a call after they came… or if they did it conflicts with the video of them driving there.
Why are you willing to selectively discount some DNA evidence while you admit other ?
Because the 2 key pieces of evidence should be discounted because they were not arrived at by using the same type of test and were collected differently. All the other DNA testing was done using standard DNA testing in a lab that was nominally set up to do it but which did not always follow all guidelines and procedures and who did not release all data for defense experts to evaluate.
NO DNA that helped the prosecutions case was found initially on the 2 items… the bra clasp and the knife. Regular testing on the rest of the bra had strong findings for Meredith and Rudy. Amanda’s DNA was on the knife handle and the bra clasp did have Meredith’s as well.
Now the problem comes… the DNA specialist then attempted doing what amounts to Low Count Number (LCN) DNA test which is still experimental in most places and while now accepted in the UK it requires a very specialized expensive lab that must meet many stringent minimum requirements. The tester in this situation had never done this before, the lab was fundamentally lacking in every way to do this test and come up with verifiable, trustworthy data. And yet they did allege that they found MKs DNA or something like it… on the knife… not blood.… no blood on the knife. The DNA would have been in picogram amounts originally and easily contaminated in that lab or elsewhere by the smallest flecks of skin or dust. And there are the same problems with the bra clasp except that along with RS’s alleged DNA there are 5 other peoples… unidentified. There can be little doubt that all the DNA and “all” is a very very tiny amount, much smaller than regular standard DNA can reliable even detect as being there...
Add to that no control tests were done and the “evidence” involving these 2 items evaporates. They are rightly to be judged differently from all the other DNA evidence. This looks like a DNA fishing expedition done after no DNA evidence for RS & AK turned up in MK’S bedroom. check these for details http://www.sciencespheres.com/2009/10/methods-of-polizia-pseudoscientificaa.html http://freeaman.001webs.com/pdfs/LCN_DNA_I.pdf http://freeaman.001webs.com/pdfs/LCN_DNA_II.pdf