Richard Archibeque
I am a big advocate of DNA. I think it has done wonders in finding perpetrators as well as exonerating people. There are the occasional cases in which I do not find the presence of DNA is not necessarily useful such in cases of people who are murdered in their home and another household members DNA is found. In those cases I want more than DNA. DNA results also often worry me in old cases. I realize that over the years that the process in which DNA is analyzed and the amount needed to get results have changed. It is just the older cases in which I worry more about contamination, both at the crime scene and the lab and to be truthful in the accuracy of the results are at least the results given. This is a case in which DNA was what was ultimately used to obtain a conviction, thirty years after the murder. On September 9, 1977 seventeen year old Mary Quigley went to a big back to school party in Santa Clara California. No one is quite sure...