Cece Moore

Now, they can certainly argue that maybe the next person to handle it wore gloves and they were trying to set him up.

So they transported it to the crime scene and left it there.

So I do think there is some room for argument there.

And it's very fortunate that they have other evidence.

And that's really important because DNA, as you well know, should not be the only evidence in a case.

You certainly hope they will be able to support it with other types of evidence.

Well, not if he wiped it down or I think the knife sheath was leather.

It's maybe less likely to retain that touch DNA than the button.

Touch DNA, it's transferable.

It's easy to wipe away.

You can shake someone's hand and you get their touch DNA on your hand and you can then transfer it to a different item.

And so it is more...

you know, transitory or transferable.

And it's harder to detect.

So I'm not sure they would find it on the leather.

And also he might've wiped that down.

I mean, I'm surprised he didn't wipe the whole thing down.

Well, there had to be enough DNA extracted by the Idaho Crime Lab that they were able to split that and send some of it to the private lab that would have created the genetic genealogy profile.

And so there must have been enough, but even that could be a tiny amount.

So they would have created their profile, their law enforcement court admissible profile at the crime lab and then sent out what was remaining to a private lab.