Jon Benet Ramsey and DNA Evidence

The new method for finding DNA evidence is called touch DNA. Testing by the new method was ordered by Lacy. They rake areas where there is no visible evidence of DNA and if present they pick it up. In this case they discovered male DNA that matched the DNA from blood already discovered on the panties and beneath the fingernails of the victim. The samples were taken from three different spots on her clothing.

The newer method was created by Bode Technology Group in Lorton, Virginia. Patsy, the victim's mother died of ovarian caner before the family was exonerated. There is a chance that the murderer may be found because the national DNA bank keeps growing and a match could come up. That is what the investigators in Boulder would like to happen as expressed by Lacy for them.

John Ramsey also expressed his concern that not all states submit samples to the database.

As of 2003 up to 300,000 samples were still in line from convicted felons across the nation that needed to be added to the national database of the federal government. This estimation is taken from the study the U.S. Justice Department funded. This figure has soared up to 5.8 million more recently and these profiles are in FBI's Combined DNA Index System. Idaho, Nebraska, and New Hampshire are the only states that don't make convicted felons give DNA for the database, this from Lisa Hurst who consults for a law firm in Washington state. The specialization of the firm is issues concerning DNA.

(JonBenet's killer might never be found P. Solomon Banda, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)