CNN Forensic Files June 28, 2015 04:55:00
To find out if it was joanne chambers' dna on the threatening letters, jim anderson needed her dna profile. for that, he looked in her trash. once trash is placed at the curbside, the owner gives up all legal rights to what's inside. plastic straws, used tissues and a cotton swab with ear wax, all items with possible genetic material were sent to the dna lab for testing. a doctor identified two different dna profiles from the mucus, saliva, and earwax samples from the chambers' trash. >> the dna from one of the household members was similar to the dna on the back of the stamps and the envelope...