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this, you are such an expert in this field. main thing i want to touch on, the d.n.a., we don t know how it was tracked down, we ll find out in the coming days when he is back in idaho. his d.n.a. wasn t in the system, if that is how investigators were led to kohberger, how they found d.n.a. somewhere else? d.n.a. became a forensic investigative tool because all of the d.n.a. matches d.n.a. of people of criminal records go to the fbi in a codis database, like they have a fingerprint database. if d.n.a. is found in a case or sexual assault kit that matches somebody arrested and has d.n.a.
was stored as evidence. back in 1986, flint police could only compare the prints to others in michigan and the search turned up no matches. but improvements in computer technology led to the creation of an automated fingerprint identification system that compares thousands of fingerprints in seconds. when the print from the water faucet was placed into the new nationwide fingerprint database, the computer identified a matching print in florida. it matched the right thumbprint of 39-year-old jeffrey gorton, who was now living in a suburb of flint, michigan. he was a married man, wife and children. would appear from all the outward signs to be perfectly normal, your next-door neighbor. gorton lived just a short distance from margarette eby and owned a gold monte carlo
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it. and there was a perfectly logical reason for mike s prints to be there. he did all of the repair work. i just put that water heater in there. i done all the maintenance up there. i took care of everything. and it was clear that mike satterfield did not fit the description of the man the eyewitness saw jumping through the salon window. he s an enormous man. with all due respect to him, he couldn t get out that window. there would be a hole in the side of the mobile home if mike tried to get out the window and he d tell you the same thing. in a search for suspects, investigators found other fingerprints at the crime scene, one in dana s blood. all were submitted to the statewide fingerprint database. unfortunately, there were no matches. the fingerprint was never identified. and there s no telling how many they ran through, how many people they checked on that.