the on/off switch, hoping to find dead skin cells. dna can get onto an object by just handling it. and by swabbing the item we can often obtain a dna profile. amazingly, there were enough skin cells to develop a dna profile. the skin cells in the crevices of the on/off switch were not ivan jones or darcy mcclain s. they were the skin cells of the murder victim, david crawford, proving it was his flashlight. investigators believe that jones planned to burglarize the empty house across the street from david crawford. to break in, jones stole the ax from darcy mcclain s home, but when he got to the house, a neighborhood dog started barking and woke david crawford. he got up and grabbed his flashlight to investigate. crawford saw jones, and that s when jones attacked.
and she made sure to swab the one place that s easy to overlook, the area underneath the on/off switch, hoping to find dead skin cells. dna can get on an object just by handling it, and by swabbing the item, we can often obtain a dna profile. amazingly, there were enough skin cells to develop a dna profile. the skin cells in the crevices of the on/off switch were not ivan jones or darcy mcclain s.