COMPARISON OF 1997 DNA TO 2008 DNA "MATCHES" IN ONE BODE TEST.
COMPARISON OF 1997 DNA TO 2008 DNA "MATCHES" IN ONE BODE TEST.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
DNA written test results from BODE Technology/Labs
The following documents were obtained through a Colorado Open Records request sent to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office in Colorado. I submitted the request on Saturday, October 29, 2016. As far as I know, this is the first time these Bode DNA reports on the Ramsey case have been published. The Bode Lab Reports on the JonBenét Ramsey case were submitted during three different months, March 2008, May 2008 and June 2008.
The documents included are labeled: Evidence #1 2008 Touch DNA Results Bode Technology – 3-24-2008, Evidence #2 - 1997 and 2008 DNA matches- Boulder Chief DA Investigator Report
Evidence #1 - the Bode 2008 Touch DNA Analysis – Bode tested the underwear in four different places. The information is from the Bode Technology report.
1. On the exterior top right half of long johns they found “contains a mixture of at least two individuals including the victim and at least one male contributor.” It excludes DNA from Burke, Patricia, John, Melinda and John Andrew Ramsey.
2. On the exterior top left half of long johns “contains a mixture of at least two individuals including the victim and at least one male contributor.” It excludes John, Melinda and John Andrew Ramsey. “The profiles associated with Burke Ramsey and Patricia Ramsey cannot be included or excluded from the mixture DNA profiles.”
3. The interior top right half of the long johns “was deemed unsuitable for any further comparison purposes.”
4. The interior top left half of the long johns “contains a mixture of at least three individuals including the victim and at least one male contributor.”…deemed unsuitable for any further comparison purposes.”
Evidence #2 – Based on a conversation with Bode Technology regarding its report that the Boulder District Attorney Chief Investigator concluded the DNA profiles discussed on the outside of JonBenét’s long johns were “consistent” and “matched” the DNA profiles from 1997. It is important to note from the documentation that after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA report in 1997, the material was referred to Cellmark Labs. In 2003, the Denver Police Department Crime Lab analyzed and prepared the sample for CODIS – the FBI Data Base for DNA which contains strict protocol for admission of DNA samples.
“Notably, the profile developed by the Denver PD, and previously uploaded to the CODIS database as a forensic unknown profile and the profiles developed from the exterior top right and left portions of the long johns were consistent.*” DA11-0330
“On 3/27/08, at approximately 0845 hours, I spoke to Williamson about the laboratory report I received on 3/25/08. It was her opinion that the serological source of the profile developed from the two samples that matched* the CODIS profile was probably not a fluid, but the result of touch contact with those areas of the item.
*The italics are not in the original report. I added them for emphasis.
Evidence #3 – Bode Technology Supplemental Report – 6-20-2008 Comparison of “unknown male #1” 1997 profile to the profile test done on the exterior top right and top left Touch DNA of JonBenet’s long johns tested in 2008. Request for the comparison analysis from Boulder DA.
Results similar to Evidence #1.
This is the best information I can give you to date. I will continue to research. Reading the Bode written analyses will help you arrive at your own conclusions.
As far as I know, this is the only publicized accounting of the written analysis from the Bode Labs DNA testing in 2008 on the JonBenét Ramsey case.
- Paula Woodward