Jul 17, 2011
Crime in Brief
In today’s crime roundup “Sticky” is back in custody, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science is reevaluating DNA evidence tested in 375 cases, a stabbing in Frederick, and angels in Adams Morgan.
Dec 16, 2009
Police Link Dale City Rapes to Serial Rapist
Via the Washington Post’s Crime Scene blog, word that Prince William and Fairfax police say they have DNA evidence that connects the Halloween rapes of two teenage girls in Dale City to an alleged serial rapist who is suspected in at least a dozen other sexual assaults up and down the East Coast. The rapes span from 1997 to this year, with “at least four rapes in Fairfax County between 1999 and 2001, several in…
Oct 17, 2009
FBI Analyst Taints Levy Case DNA Evidence
And now, yet another dissapointing twist in the Chandra Levy murder case: during the hearing for Ingmar Guandique, who was arrested on murder charges back in April, it was revealed that a since-fired FBI analyst mixed some of her own DNA on to evidence collected from the crime scene. The Post reported that the damaged evidence included clothing which Levy was wearing when she was discovered. Guandique’s attorneys, already playing the “incompetent law enforcement” card,…