European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 07, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse August 7, 1978 Aid in solving crimes microscopic analysis of evaporated blood samples. Tell tale enzymes it s in the mood by Scott Kraft antedated preut hey put James love on trial Lor the Grue some new year s eve murder of a Little boy and his 14-year-old Babysitter but they d never found a murder weapon had no fingerprints and could t even suggest a plausible motive. Nevertheless there were those two drops of dried blood one on the former Marine Corporal s knee length boots the other on the door of the suburban duplex apart ment where the two were slain. It was enough thanks to a Tell tale enzyme love was convicted and sentenced to 300 years in the Penitentiary thai Iku in o14 and marked one of the lint court room Mcce Titt of blood enzyme identification. Unit i i std in. Handful of the of tors thought might belong to the baby Smer. Sheila . And the stain on the door which police Bell Tver and love each had the same blood Tjw which at one time would have thwarted the invest Tauoa but blood enzyme tests showed a diam cuon Defini Flenough to convince a jury. We believe it is a fingerprint in some ways a Brian Wraxall. A sexologist on leave from the Loo Doi metropolitan forensic science Laboratory at new Scot land Yard. It s individual to a Given person. The que lion now is to prove it. In love s trial the techniques were limited to out. Mining in a narrower Way than possible with the a a typing system that a blood stain could not have come from a particular person. We cannot say absolutely that a defendant guilty says Wraxall in the United states to a feed of and teach simpler blood identification techniques. We take each individual enzyme system in a a blood stain and find its distribution among the nop lion then we multiply All the population Distrito somand end up with a Small percentage often Tea the i percent love s murder conviction one of the Fin in Rinoa tests of enzyme identification in the United Suta from hundreds of tests at the regional Grin us oratory according to director Gary s search for better ways to study evident to rewarded again two years later with the convict a a Jdwight Couch arrested in a Kansas City hotel it Yoni Ana a resident was beaten. The resident could t dept Jay Hoat Tacker because she was struck ram behind and tin Only evidence was a blood stain on Couch s shirt to Well s analysis of enzyme patterns be thira to Coo elude the victim was one of 10 persons in the Kansas Cit area who would match the blood. Again it was enough convince a the advances in blood study the number of labs acquainted with the techniques is Small and the number using the techniques even smaller. Blood identification is the most difficult item Olph Sical evidence submitted to crime Tabora taty says John Sullivan manager of the forensic science program for the National Institute of Law enforce ment and criminal Justice. The Institute a research Arm of the Law enforcement assistance administration has spent More than Al Mil lion on serology research in the last seven of the Money has gone to Wra waifs work in blood identification techniques. That study completed recently. Is undergoing evaluation. If Leaa approves the re sults Wraxall will conduct training sessions for crime labs. The Fri Laboratory in Washington also trains forensic chemists in blood enzyme analysis. In 1977, rtt Reje Ardi division headed by Cornelius g. My Wriggl. Handled is cases which involved serology. The Michigan state police lab is another Leader in Thiesfield and has successfully brought serology into the courtroom Many limes. David Metsger. A chemist there says the use of blood enzyme techniques in the courtroom has been Well received by judges and juries. He says judges now expect crime labs to provide More precise analysis and Sim Pler presentations of All types of physical evidence is More important in the eyes of the jury than Ever before he says physical evidence does t lie it s just a despite inroads toe precision of blood work still fall Short Ihirg Eprim Ifert met saw ays it in t Likely to outrun Finger prints As evidence before expert i studied the blood on i he Boot which investing is me systems identified St much re ra2" some pros ors Aren t even award 1 never talk to a Telephone answering machine that f Don t suffer a major anxiety attack. They re always so cutesy with their i Here. I m Bunny and i m really glad you called. 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