“Those tests have helped send the guilty to prison or death row and helped free the innocent. Paul Gregory House, 47, spent 22 years under a death sentence for killing a Union County housewife until DNA evidence helped raise enough questions about the case to win his freedom.”
Lt. Clyde Cowan used to carry a forensics kit that could fit in his pocket.
Now the equipment fills a van.
“In those days, we had to collect all the evidence ourselves,” said Cowan, commander of the Major Crimes Unit for the Knox County Sheriff’s Office. “We’d spend a lot of time on the crime scene, just checking for prints. Now we can do so much more.”
Ask any veteran homicide detective in East Tennessee, and they’ll say the same. Changes in forensic technology over the past three decades have rewritten the rules of murder investigation, offering ways to solve…
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Mar 26, 2013 @ 13:00:33
Thank you for the repost of this story. It is a circumstance that truly needs to be exposed. God bless.
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