Post by Deleted on May 2, 2015 23:41:29 GMT
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Yep, they supposedly ditched all of the known EAR rape kits for the Sac area cases. Some of the Bay area cases, too. Supposedly not at the 5 year mark - later after DNA testing was coming into play in criminal cases.
Some folks claim they still had the blood evidence in the EAR case where EAR appeared to have been cut when the victim struggled with him. Do they or is that another tall tale?
Regardless, the only rape kits that weren't tossed were some (not all) in the Bay area attacks, according to Paul Holes.
CC (Contra Costa County) still had their rape kits. They originally couldn't match their DNA profiles to the ONS profile that OC (Orange County) had for their murders and the Smith murders in Ventura. OC had done the DNA profile for the Ventura Smith murders. CC supposedly had inconclusive results and non matching results when they tested their rape kits and compared it to the OC DNA profile for ONS.
Later, after getting some new equipment, CC did match 3 of their EAR cases out of the 6? rape kits they had (can't remember how many kits they had left off the top of my head) to the DNA profile OC had for ONS. That was when the EAR to ONS DNA link was made and it was in 2001.
During all of that, SB (Santa Barbara) was still claiming that they had DNA in their Goleta murder cases that did not match the killer's DNA profile that OC had for their ONS DNA profile. In 2011, after re-examining evidence from the Goleta murders, a lab found sperm on an item (supposedly a bedspread) from the Domingo/Sanchez murder evidence. The DNA profile from that sperm showed a match to the DNA profile OC had for the other murders.