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not similar, so he was eliminated as a suspect. despite the hair analysis, susan s family was convinced that john paul phillips was susan s killer. and they didn t take phillips into custody at the time. they didn t arrest him or charge him, which i didn t understand at the time, because i thought that they had enough reason to. later, phillips committed several assaults that landed him in jail. he went out to the devil s kitchen, spotted a young lady and her boyfriend at one of the campgrounds, approached them with a gun. he went over to carterville and kidnapped a girl, too. but police finally got a break in susan schumake s case. first, they found susan s yellow backpack in the piles fork creek behind the dormitories. her wallet was missing. friends said she usually carried about $10.
that doesn t flesh out. then you realize, wait, we have an innocent guy here. the prosecution s key evidence against james duckett was pubic hair that had been found in teresa mcabee s underwear. neither beth wells nor marshall frank were buying it. duckett was accused of sexually assaulting her. one of the things that troubled me a lot is that the prosecution was saying that the pubic hair inside her panties was from the killer, but it wasn t uncommon for teresa to put her mommy s panties on. so maybe that pubic hair was already there in those panties. the records show the prosecution took unusual steps to connect the pubic hair to duckett. the sheriff s department had been with the hair analysis shopping it around. fdle, the florida department of law enforcement had told them, nope. ain t nothing there. fdle said that hair was probably not mine. 28 out of 30 characteristics didn t match the hair.
prosecution took unusual steps to connect the pubic hair to duckett. the sheriff s department with the hair analysis, shopping it around. the florida department of law enforcement told them, nope, ain t nothing there. fdle said that hair was probably not mine. 28 out of 30 characteristics didn t match the hair. nope, ain t nothing there. they said we can t do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we can t do anything with it. we went to the fbi. they re the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at i. mike malone is the fbi expert. he tested it and he comes up and says oh, yeah, this is mike duckett s hair. so you have the preeminent investigative agency saying it is jim duckett s hair. that s powerful evidence to a jury. there is no question they re going on believe that.
teresa to put her mom s panties on. so maybe that pubic hair was already there. records show that the prosecution took steps to connect the hair to duckett. the hair analysis, shopping it around, the florida department, law enforcement told them no, there is nothing there. fdle said the hair was probably not mine, 28 out of 3030 characteristics did not match mine. they said the state of dna at the time was, we can t do anything with it. so we went to the fbi because they re the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at it. mike malone is the fbi expert. he testified and says oh, yeah, this is jim duckett s hair, consistent, you have the pre