The DNA from Crime Scene Stumps Expert
Sean Mckibbon
Ottawa Sun
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Ottawa (Canada):
The second-degree murder trial against Dimitre Dimitrov took a bizarre twist yesterday with testimony about mysterious DNA evidence found at the crime scene.
Blood spatter pattern expert Staff Sgt. Scott Brown testified that a DNA sample taken from a pair of boots found in the garage where Hristo Veltchev, 37, was killed did not match the victim, Dimitrov or anybody else police know entered the house.
Brown's analysis of the pattern on the boots indicated that the person wearing them would have been two to four feet away from where Veltchev received a fatal blow.
Brown said the sample was taken and analyzed three years after the 1996 killing when DNA technology had improved.
Speaking through a Bulgarian interpreter, a mutual friend of Veltchev and Dimitrov, Pavel Stankov, said yesterday that Dimitrov visited his Vanier home by bus at about 1 or 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 21, 1996, the day Veltchev was killed.
Oct 20, 2005
Sean Mckibbon
Ottawa Sun
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Ottawa (Canada):
The second-degree murder trial against Dimitre Dimitrov took a bizarre twist yesterday with testimony about mysterious DNA evidence found at the crime scene.
Blood spatter pattern expert Staff Sgt. Scott Brown testified that a DNA sample taken from a pair of boots found in the garage where Hristo Veltchev, 37, was killed did not match the victim, Dimitrov or anybody else police know entered the house.
Brown's analysis of the pattern on the boots indicated that the person wearing them would have been two to four feet away from where Veltchev received a fatal blow.
Brown said the sample was taken and analyzed three years after the 1996 killing when DNA technology had improved.
Speaking through a Bulgarian interpreter, a mutual friend of Veltchev and Dimitrov, Pavel Stankov, said yesterday that Dimitrov visited his Vanier home by bus at about 1 or 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 21, 1996, the day Veltchev was killed.
Oct 20, 2005
