[svlug] Reiser's Wife's Ex-Lover Killed 8! Plus Question Re Evidence

[Rick Moen]

Mark S. Bilk wrote:

> Does anyone have info on the size and number of these drops?

Correction:  I've just found an ANG Newspapers / InsideBayArea story
giving some details of Oakland PD criminologist Shannon Cavness's DNA
testimony on Feb. 28, during the preliminary hearings before Judge
Julie Conger:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_4878462

Cavness did DNA testing on two blood drops in a pillar inside Hans and
his mother's Montclair house, and on one drop found on a sleeping bag
stuffsack in Hans's Honda CRX.  One of the pllar drops tested as that of
a male, and one as that of a female.  The female blood drop and the
stuffsack drop both contained DNS that matched to known samples of Nina
Reiser's blood's DNS to a degree that leaves only a one in 45x10^12
chance of it not being from Nina.

Defence attorney DuBois got Cavness to admit, during cross-examination,
that there's no way of knowing how long the drops had been present.