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suffragette

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1. Now isn't that interesting

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:14 AM

Jul 2012

You'd think they would ensure ALL personnel who might have been involved in testing would be excluded, especially before releasing it to the media.
Well, unless they wanted this out in the media for some other reason.

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Now isn't that interesting suffragette Jul 2012 #1

Did they release this info, or did someone sneak it to Murdoch's guys? And then the PD said MADem Jul 2012 #3

The question would still be: why would that occur/ what purpose would it serve suffragette Jul 2012 #6

I get the sense this was a screw up--someone mouthed off, maybe for money. MADem Jul 2012 #8

The suspect they've had is not connected to OWS and he's already been out of the country and back suffragette Jul 2012 #15

By "someone" I meant someone from within the police department who has been a media source for some MADem Jul 2012 #17

Well, unless they wanted this out in the media for some other reason. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #4

Very good point suffragette Jul 2012 #7

Yeah, they got a lot of mileage with the "OWS-DNA-Unsolved murder" headlines Blue_Tires Jul 2012 #12

Agree with you. Good point made in this article about that suffragette Jul 2012 #16

It has been thoroughly discredited according to sources from the NYPOST to the WAPO. MADem Jul 2012 #2

The DNA belongs to a lab tech who worked on both cases. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #5

Or a detective. Or a blood spatter expert, a la Dexter! nt MADem Jul 2012 #9

Yet, 10,000s of rape kits go untested. Festivito Jul 2012 #10

Good point. -eom Huey P. Long Jul 2012 #11

July 11 Billsmile Jul 2012 #13

^This is the correct answer... truebrit71 Jul 2012 #14