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Morgan Absher

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Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

And they were mixed with the victim's own DNA.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

In one of the press releases I watched with the investigator, he said that there were only a few picograms of DNA, which is literally like he describes it as like just a few cells.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Like, it was nothing.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

And that's exactly why the Y DNA was so important here.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Obviously, none of the victims had Y chromosomes.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Like, these were all girls.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

So looking for the Y DNA would make it really easy to separate, like, because those mixtures also contained their DNA.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

And the lab was able to find 16 Y-DNA markers in those crime scene samples, which was enough to exclude all four suspects, Michael, Robert, Forrest, and Maurice.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Again, like, so botched.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Of course.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Yeah, basically, go f*** yourself.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Yeah, there's like a price per year or something, I believe.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

It is, yeah.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

In certain states, maybe Texas.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

But if anyone, if we have our lawyer friend chiming in, a little phone a lawyer button and you're familiar with Texas.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

It's a lot, yeah.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Texas is so interesting legally, especially with recent changes that they're not, like Texas law schools are not going to be governed by the bar now.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

So like everyone that's like going to law school in Texas is like, thanks, you just like invalidated my whole legal degree.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

No, and they did not have enough of a sample or a high enough quality of a sample for them to submit to CODIS, which we talk about CODIS a lot.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
The Yogurt Shop Murders: Four Lives Lost, Decades of Questions

Like they couldn't submit to CODIS like they could use other databases.