Joseph Scott Morgan

DNA molecule.

It's going to be fragmented, but it can be amplified and you can develop a profile on that.

That's where I'm drawing this difference between the sourcing of the DNA.

Okay.

So yeah, you would expect somebody that's touching a doorknob, a counter, those sorts of things, or even handling, you know, cookware, knives, cutlery, anything like that.

You could find touch DNA in these environments, but it's a completely different animal than

When you begin to think about bodily fluids, all right, we're at another level at this point.

And so we would have questions relative to this.

Maybe it means nothing.

But, you know, as you know, as an attorney, if you never ask a question, you never get an answer.

And so that's going to be up to them to see how thoroughly they've investigated this space and if they can tie this back to anybody that's in there.

Yeah, yeah, it certainly is.

And again, that goes back to an earlier comment I made about objectification of her remains.

Well, of her, I think probably in life, but also her remains, how they're treated.

But Nancy, let me drop this on you.

I was just thinking about this because, and I don't want to go chasing rabbits here, but, you know, with Rex Huerman, there's a hearing that's coming up relative to...

the unidentified Asian male that they have.

And you know what they're going to be using to determine postmortem interval in that case?

They're going to be taking the microbial life in that individual's remains and trying to build out a succession.

And did you know that there's been a lot of success with this, with decomposing bodies?