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The Colorado Bureau of Investigation was alerted to problems with a longtime DNA scientist's work as early as 2014, but allowed the analyst to keep working until an intern raised the alarm again last year.

So far, more than 600 cases that Woods worked on have been thrown into question.

Garrett Coughlin, 31, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the 2017 killings and was sentenced to 42 years in prison with seven years of pre-sentence credit, avoiding the mandatory life imprisonment that accompanies a first-degree murder conviction.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation was alerted to problems with a longtime DNA scientist's work as early as 2014, but allowed the analyst to keep working until an intern raised the alarm again last year.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation was alerted to problems with a longtime DNA scientist's work as early as 2014, but allowed the analyst to keep working until an intern raised the alarm again last year.

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State crime lab employees for years repeatedly tried to warn their superiors at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation that Yvonne “Missy” Woods had become a rogue employee who was cutting

Yvonne "Missy" Woods, a former DNA analyst at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, is accused of manipulating DNA results, 650 cases are impacted.

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The Colorado Bureau of Investigation(CBI) is working to test the Colorado Amber Alert System this week.