Jerry Mark
I have a love/hate relationship with cases such as this one. It is one of those that took place back in the 1970's, before DNA had was even thought of, but a time in which blood typing could be done. Many of the cases from that era cannot necessarily depend on the evolution of DNA for many reasons. First, crime scenes were not kept as “clean” as they are now and secondly, things that were kept were not as preserved as they currently are. There is always the possibility of contamination or degrading of evidence. Many of these cases have to rely on what was available at the time. When you hear about a case you often hear those who are against the charges or the conviction that the case was “purely circumstantial.” This is true. This is true oftentimes even today. Circumstantial evidence is generally a cumulative of coincidences or eye witnesses. In those cases other things need to help collaborate that evidence and went put together it often leads in one direction towa...