court. it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me that we were on the right track. we just needed to get a good dna sample from drew planten. since planten worked for the state, investigators got permission to search his workplace. mark bodet swabbed his computer keyboard, his radio and other items he handled. dna from those skin cells was compared to the biological evidence from stephanie bennett s rape test kit. the dna profile that was obtained was an exact match to the dna which was obtained from the sperm sample from the vaginal swabs. investigators believe this dna evidence placed planten at the scene on the night of stephanie s murder. based on the evidence,
for dessert, planten ordered some banana pudding, which he ate with a fork. finally he picked up his fork and took two bites of banana pudding and took a napkin and wiped that fork for about five minutes and left that fork. and, of course, our undercover detectives recovered that fork. analyst mark bodet performed the analysis. i got a mixture of dna samples, meaning there was one strong profile and one weak profile on there as well. apparently, the restaurant hadn t properly cleaned the fork. the strong profile was from an unidentified female. the weaker one, from a male, was compared to dna from stephanie s rape kit. the one weak profile on the fork was very similar to the profile that was found on the vaginal swabs coming from stephanie bennett. but this profile was so weak, it would be inadmissible in
but this profile was so weak, it would be inadmissible in court. it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me we were on the right track. we just needed to get a good dna sample from drew planten. since planten worked for the state, investigators got permission to search his workplace. mark bodet swabbed his computer keyboard, his radio and other items he handled. dna from those skin cells was compared to the biological evidence from stephanie bennett s rape kit. the dna that was obtained was an exact match to the profile from the dna that was obtained from the sperm sample from the vaginal swabs. investigators believe this dna evidence placed planten at the scene on the night of stephanie s murder.
bennett. but this profile was so weak, it would be inadmissible in court. it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me we were on the right track. we just needed to get a good dna sample from drew planten. since planten worked for the state, investigators got permission to search his workplace. mark bodet swabbed his computer keyboard, his radio and other items he handled. dna from those skin cells was compared to the biological evidence from stephanie bennett s rape kit. the dna that was obtained was an exact match to the profile from the dna that was obtained from the sperm sample from the vaginal swabs. investigators believe this dna evidence placed planten at the scene on the night of