Chase Murder Arrest!

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  1. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Oh! WHERE do I get mine? :gottarun:
     
  2. Little

    Little Member

    Arguments Start In Susannah Chase Murder Trial

    2 stories

     
  3. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Oh, how very interesting, isn't it? UNKNOWN DNA on a bat...may get the actual killer off....

    I bet Mary Lacy is in DNA heaven.

    We'll have to keep an eye on how the proseuction handles THIS.

    Thanks again, Little, for keeping us informed.
     
  4. Elle

    Elle Member

    Little, Moab and KK!

    Where do I get mine - thirty years younger please? :gottarun:
     
  5. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Here is an interesting article which actually blames the unsolved murder of JonBenet on the arrest of Chase's alleged killer, Alcalde.

    WARNING: This pervert's bravado will make you want to puke.

    http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/localnews/ci_12590712

     
  6. Tez

    Tez Member

    KK, do you have a barf bucket handy? He's lucky with the ladies, huh? Is that before or after he beats them into submission?
     
  7. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Hey, Tez! Good to see you.

    Just use the public rest room, like the rest of us...but you'll have to get in line! :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:
     
  8. Little

    Little Member

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Chase's brother chokes up on stand
    By John Aguilar (Contact)
    Originally published 08:50 a.m., June 15, 2009
    Updated 05:07 p.m., June 15, 2009
    BOULDER, Colo. — Camera reporter John Aguilar is covering Diego Olmos Alcalde's murder trial and will be filing live updates throughout the day from the courtroom in Boulder District Court.

    Alcalde, 39, is charged with beating and raping 23-year-old University of Colorado senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997 and leaving her in a Boulder alley to die.

    Update: 5:07 p.m.

    Susannah Chase's older brother, Doug, gave the day's most emotional testimony when he spoke about helping his family make a decision about whether to take his badly injured sister off life support the day after she was attacked and left to die in a downtown alley.

    Doug Chase, a commercial real estate developer in New Jersey, said he booked a quick flight from the East Coast after getting an early morning call from his mother on Dec. 21, 1997 that he needed to get to Boulder right away.

    He told the jury that personnel at Boulder Community Hospital told him and his family the next day that his sister's prognosis wasn't good and that there was "no likelihood of her functioning as a regular human being again."

    "We went to her room, got around her bed and said a prayer," he said, choking up. "And then we took her off life support."

    The jury also heard from Ryan Fauber, who testified that he heard someone moaning near his 19th Street home as he took a cigarette break on his front porch around 3:40 a.m. on Dec. 21, 1997.

    His 911 call, which was played in court, brought police to the alley next to his house. They found Chase there, nearly dead.

    "It sounded like someone was hurt," he testified.

    Read entire story here: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/15/susannah-chase-diego-alcalde-boulder-murder-cu/
     
  9. Little

    Little Member

    Chase trial blog:

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Defense challenges Boulder cop on evidence collection

    By John Aguilar (Contact)
    Originally published 09:18 a.m., June 16, 2009
    Updated 04:56 p.m., June 16, 2009
    BOULDER, Colo. — Camera reporter John Aguilar is covering Diego Olmos Alcalde's murder trial and will be filing live updates throughout the day from the courtroom in Boulder District Court.

    Alcalde, 39, is charged with beating and raping 23-year-old University of Colorado senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997 and leaving her in a Boulder alley to die.

    Update: 4:56 p.m.

    Diego Alcalde's defense attorney, Mary Claire Mulligan, went through a long list of items that Boulder police crime scene investigator Pam Gignac did not collect at the crime scene.

    She showed the jury pictures of multiple cigarette butts, a plastic bag, a bloody piece of paper, and a bloody cellophane package that went uncollected. Gignac also acknowledged not processing for fingerprints a couple of vehicles and a dumpster in the alley where Chase was found moaning.

    Prosecutor Amy Okubo asked Gignac why she didn't collect all the items the defense questioned her about.

    snip

    Update: 4:04 p.m.

    Suspected murder weapon shown to jury


    snip

    Update: 3:36 p.m.

    Jury to see suspected murder weapon

    The aluminum Louisville Slugger baseball bat that prosecutors say Diego Olmos Alcalde used to beat Susannah Chase will be shown to the jury this afternoon.

    The bat, which both sides claim is a crucial piece of evidence for their respective cases, will be unwrapped and displayed in court by Boulder police crime scene investigator Pam Gignac.

    The prosecution claims the bat has DNA from the woman Alcalde was dating at the time of Chase's death, which they say solidifies Alcalde's link to the crime. The defense, meanwhile, says the bat carries a sample of unknown male DNA that is key to finding the real killer.

    The bat was found lying in some grass against a picket fence at the southwest corner of 18th and Spruce streets -- the location where police detected multiple splotches of blood and drag marks leading south down the sidewalk.

    Prosecutors believe the street corner is the location where Chase was struck with the bat and then dragged to a car half a block away.

    Update: 12:16 p.m.

    snip

    "She seemed happy to me," Mulready said of Chase.

    But he said that changed when the three customers were in the pool room. He said they appeared to be arguing and Chase came out of the back and went straight to the bathroom in a state of visible distress.

    "She seemed to be crying," Mulready said.

    He said while Chase was in the bathroom, he noticed the Heimerl brothers talking about leaving Abo's until one of them said "But she's our ride."

    snip

    Roseanna Beram-Babbage said she flew back east for the holidays on Dec. 20, 1997 and had to turn around and fly right back to Boulder when she received word that her roommate had been attacked and might not survive.

    She said after seeing Chase at the hospital she went back to her home at 1802 Spruce St. and listened to voice mail messages on the house phone. Beram-Babbage said there was a padlock on the front door, placed there by police, but that she and a friend accessed the house from the back.

    Beram-Babbage testified that she heard three or four messages from Chase's boyfriend, Andy Heimerl. Heimerl, she said, was wondering where Chase was and was asking her to call him.

    Defense attorney Steven Jacobson asked the witness if she erased the messages Heimerl had left. She said she had. He asked her why she had entered a home that was clearly locked down by police. She said she didn't really think about it at the time.

    snip

    Update: 9:18 a.m.

    Neighbor hears someone crying out: 'Mommy, Mommy'

    Courtney Pineau, a woman who lived next to the alley where Susannah Chase was found, took the stand Tuesday morning.

    She said her dog was unusually alert in the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 1997 and was looking out the window with interest.

    At some point, Pineau said she heard someone calling out in the night -- "Mommy, Mommy."

    "I was thinking why does that person keep calling for her mother?" Pineau said.

    But she said because of the constant noise and activity of that alley, she didn't think much of it.
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    read entire article here: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/16/chase-trial-blog-neighbor-heard-someone-crying-out/
     
  10. Little

    Little Member

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Deputy coroner steps down after cross-exam
    By John Aguilar (Contact)
    Originally published 09:07 a.m., June 17, 2009
    Updated 05:01 p.m., June 17, 2009
    BOULDER, Colo. — Camera reporter John Aguilar is covering Diego Olmos Alcalde's murder trial and will be filing live updates throughout the day from the courtroom in Boulder District Court.

    Alcalde, 39, is charged with beating and raping 23-year-old University of Colorado senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997 and leaving her in a Boulder alley to die.

    Update: 5:01 p.m.

    Lawyers finished their questioning of Boulder County Deputy Coroner John Meyer Wednesday afternoon.

    Mary Claire Mulligan, Diego Olmos Alcalde's attorney, asked Meyer about whether he could tell if Chase was able to remain upright between each blow she received to her head.

    Meyer said it was unlikely.

    By analyzing when Chase's blood and urine were drawn at the hospital and when she was given a sedative in the emergency room, Mulligan suggested that Chase already had Lorazepam -- a sedative -- in her system before getting to the hospital.

    Meyer said he didn't know if that was the case and said the time notations made on the medical records may not have been accurate to the minute.

    The trial has broken for the day.

    Update: 4:04 p.m.

    Coroner takes the jury through Chase's injuries

    Boulder County Deputy Coroner John Meyer took the jury through a series of graphic autopsy photos showing various injuries Susannah Chase sustained in the early morning hours of Dec. 21, 1997.

    Pictures of Chase's shaved head with six lacerations were shown to the jury. Meyer said the injuries -- one of which he said may have been the result of two blows -- were due to blunt force trauma.

    "So it's possible she received six or seven blows to the head?" prosecutor Amy Okubo queried.

    "Yes," Meyer replied.

    snip

    Update: 2:30 p.m.

    Graphic autopsy photos allowed at trial, judge rules

    Boulder District Judge James Klein said he will allow graphic autopsy photographs to be shown to the jury but will warn the 16-member panel that what they are about to see is disturbing.

    He said the law favors inclusion of evidence over exclusion of evidence when the question arises. The judge said the prejudicial nature of the photos -- which include images of Susannah Chase's skull and brain -- would have to far outweigh their evidentiary value for them to be kept out.

    The defense argued that the photos are so gruesome that they would only serve to inflame and shock the jury. Prosecutors say the photos speak to Diego Olmos Alcalde's intent to kill Chase.

    Klein said he has never seen photos like the ones in question and felt it was only fair to warn the jury about what it was about to see.

    "It will be -- Folks hold on to your seats and try to be clinical about this," Klein said.

    He denied a request by Alcalde's lawyer to allow the photos only in black and white.

    The jury has been called into the courtroom and Boulder County Deputy Coroner John Meyer is on the stand.

    Update: 2:05 p.m.

    Defense: Autopsy photos will have jurors 'throwing up'

    Mary Claire Mulligan, Diego Olmos Alcalde's attorney, petitioned Boulder District Judge James Klein to exclude several autopsy photos of Susannah Chase from the trial.

    She made her remarks before the jury was called in for the afternoon.

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    Update: Noon

    Defense challenges doctor on sex assault findings

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    Update: 11:11 a.m.

    Doctor says he erred in sex assault conclusion

    The emergency room doctor who examined Susannah Chase at Boulder Community Hospital on Dec. 21, 1997 said he shouldn't have stated in his report that there was no evidence "whatsoever" that Chase was sexually assaulted.

    He said he drew that conclusion when he didn't visually detect any trauma to Chase's genitals, but he told the jury Wednesday morning that determination was premature because about half of sexual assaults don't result in trauma to a victim's genitals.

    "I was drawing a conclusion that wasn't supported by my exam and I don't know why I did that," Abbott said.

    The doctor's conclusion is important because prosecutors contend Chase was raped the night she was beaten while Diego Olmos Alcalde's defense team says she wasn't.

    snip

    Update: 9:07 a.m.

    ER doctor takes the stand

    read entire story here:
    http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/1...lder-murder-cu/
     
  11. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Thanks so much, Little, for keeping us updated.

    I wish Dr. Meyer would grow a backbone. He essentially blew it in the Midyette trial, IMO, when he let the defense bully him and wmped out. He also wimped out in the JB case when the press hounded him for soundbites. He left a lot out of that autopsy, as well.
     
  12. Little

    Little Member

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Testimony from detective ends day

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Testimony from detective ends day
    By John Aguilar (Contact)
    Originally published 09:18 a.m., June 18, 2009
    Updated 04:53 p.m., June 18, 2009
    Camera reporter John Aguilar is covering Diego Olmos Alcalde's murder trial and will be filing live updates throughout the day from the courtroom in Boulder District Court.

    Alcalde, 39, is charged with beating and raping 23-year-old University of Colorado senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997 and leaving her in a Boulder alley to die.

    Update: 4:53 p.m.

    The day ended with testimony from Boulder Police Detective David Spraggs, who told the jury he found a hair on the BMW that was parked in the alley where Susannah Chase was found.

    snip

    The trial will resume Friday morning.

    Update: 4:27 p.m.

    Officer says evidence was under his control

    Prosecutors have called Denver police officer Rick Guzman to the stand.

    Guzman, who was a Boulder police detective when Susannah Chase was attacked, testified that he transported the sex assault examination kit, blood samples from the crime scene, and a Louisville Slugger baseball bat suspected of being used to hit Chase on the head to a lab at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

    He said the evidence was sealed and under his control until he relinquished it to CBI.

    Update: 3:49 p.m.

    Boulder Police Cmdr. Curtis Johnson is on the stand answering questions from the lawyers.

    Johnson was present in the hospital room where Susannah Chase underwent a sexual assault exam on Dec. 21, 1997.

    He took custody of the sex assault kit once the exam was over, he said.

    He also testified that he interviewed Sonci Francis, Diego Alcalde's girlfriend at the time Chase was attacked, and took DNA swabs from her.

    Update: 3:07 p.m.

    Jury hears frank sexual testimony

    A sex assault examination expert told the jury that sexual assault does not always cause female genital injury.

    Anissa Jones, a registered nurse, said a woman's body may respond sexually to penile penetration even if the sex is not consensual.

    Jones said this would be even more likely if the woman is incapacitated and cannot resist the perpetrator.

    snip

    Update: 1:59 p.m.

    Lynn Kimball, a nurse who conducted a sexual assault exam on Susannah Chase, has stepped down from the witness box.

    After the lunch break, Diego Alcalde attorney Mary Claire Mulligan, asked her if she had told a Boulder police detective that she had seen no overt sign of sexual assault after examining Chase.

    snip

    Update: 1 p.m.

    Defense hints at consensual sex between Chase and defendant

    A legal argument over the condition of the sperm found in Susannah Chase's body -- which goes to the heart of the defense's case -- erupted in court Thursday morning after the jury had been dismissed for lunch.

    The implication of the dispute, according to the defense, is that Diego Alcalde had consensual sex with Chase days or weeks before she was attacked and that the evidence supporting that possibility should be made known to the jury.

    They argue that a lab technician at Boulder Community Hospital analyzing slides from Chase's sex assault exam found non-motile sperm -- sperm that does not swim robustly or at all. They said sperm remains motile for only a limited amount of time.

    Prosecutors say that sperm found in Chase matched DNA submitted by Alcalde while he was serving a prison sentence for an unrelated crime.

    snip

    Update: 11:11 a.m.

    Lynn Kimball, a nurse, said all swabs taken from Susannah Chase's body during her sexual assault exam the morning of Dec. 21, 1997 were placed in a container and sealed.

    snip

    Update: 10:28 a.m.

    Expert: No obvious sign of sexual abuse

    Lynn Kimball, a nurse who works as an expert in sexual assault exams, said she didn't see any obvious signs of sexual trauma when she examined Susannah Chase the morning of Dec. 21, 1997.

    snip

    Update: 9:51 a.m.

    Sex assault exam expert takes the stand

    Lynn Kimball, a nurse at Boulder Community Hospital at the time of Chase's death, is now on the stand. She is considered an expert in sexual assault examination.

    Before Kimball took the stand, nurse Patricia Landon was cross-examined by Diego Alcalde's lawyer, Mary Claire Mulligan, who asked her if she had described the state of Susannah Chase's underpants in a different way years ago than she had in court this morning.

    snip

    Update: 9:18 a.m.

    Emergency nurse suspected sex assault

    The nurse who examined Susannah Chase as she was brought into Boulder Community Hospital's emergency room the morning of Dec. 21, 1997 said she began to suspect that Chase may have been sexually assaulted once her pants were removed.

    Patricia Landon told the jury Chase's underpants were askew, with one side yanked up high on her hip and the other rolled and bunched up in her crotch. She said Chase's jeans had been pulled all the way up and snapped shut.

    read entire story here:
    http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/1...pected-sexual-/
     
  13. koldkase

    koldkase FFJ Senior Member

    Thanks again, Little.
     
  14. Little

    Little Member

    Defense lawyer chides witness over male DNA on bat

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Defense lawyer chides witness over male DNA on bat
    By John Aguilar (Contact)
    Originally published 09:16 a.m., June 19, 2009
    Updated 04:57 p.m., June 19, 2009
    Camera reporter John Aguilar is covering Diego Olmos Alcalde's murder trial and will be filing live updates throughout the day from the courtroom in Boulder District Court.

    Alcalde, 39, is charged with beating and raping 23-year-old University of Colorado senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997 and leaving her in a Boulder alley to die.

    Update: 4:57 p.m.

    Defense attorney Steven Jacobson vigorously questioned the testing methods used and choices made by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on the Susannah Chase case Friday afternoon.

    In particular, he challenged CBI DNA expert Ronald Arndt on his decision not to tell police or put in his 2002 report that he had found on the baseball bat handle a sample of male DNA that didn't match his client, Diego Olmos Alcalde.

    Jacoboson chided Arndt for not submitting the profile -- which was a weaker profile to a female DNA profile found on the bat -- to the nationwide DNA criminal database for comparison to crime scene evidence.

    snip

    Update: 4:11 p.m.

    CBI agent undergoes cross-examination

    Defense attorney Steven Jacobson challenged CBI DNA expert Ronald Arndt during cross-examination Friday afternoon.

    He asked Arndt if DNA breaks down over time, to a point where a good profile can no longer be identified.

    Arndt said that's true.

    Jacobson noted that Arndt was doing tests on the baseball bat handle in 2002 -- five years after Susannah Chase was attacked.

    snip

    Update: 3:20 p.m.

    Expert discusses bat handle DNA in court

    Testimony went into detailed discussion about DNA analysis this afternoon, with prosecutor Ryan Brackley putting on display a variety of charts showing regions of DNA strands and what they reveal about genetic material recovered on the baseball bat found at the crime scene.

    Ronald Arndt, a DNA specialist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, testified that he used the new touch DNA extraction method in 2002 in an attempt to recover a DNA profile from the bat handle.

    He said he managed to find a major profile, which belonged to a female, and a minor profile, which belonged to a male. Arndt told the jury he was unable to match the profiles to any known person.

    snip

    Update: 2:26 p.m.

    Jury hears testimony on age of sperm

    The CBI agent who did DNA analysis on the evidence in the Susannah Chase murder case said he didn't find any semen in Chase's underpants or jeans.

    Ronald Arndt, the agent-in-charge of the agency's biological science unit, said investigators will often find traces of semen in the underwear of a woman who recently had sexual intercourse, due to "drainage" of seminal fluid on to the underpants.

    Prosecutor Ryan Brackley asked Arndt if it's possible there wouldn't be evidence of semen drainage if the woman was lying down or her underwear was not in contact with her crotch.

    Arndt said that was possible.

    The agent then testified that from the sexual assault evidence kit collected from Chase -- which included swabs taken from her vagina and cervix -- he found a heavier concentration of sperm in Chase's vagina than in her cervix.

    snip

    Update: 12:09 p.m.

    CBI agent points out clothing to jury

    Prosecutor Ryan Brackley had CBI agent Ronald Arndt open several boxes containing various clothing items worn by Susannah Chase the night she was attacked.

    snip

    Update: 11:25 a.m.

    The jury is getting a crash course in DNA analysis, as Colorado Bureau of Investigation biological science agent Ronald Arndt explains what DNA strands are.

    He testified that there are 13 regions, or loci, on a DNA strand that are generally different from person to person. He said it is those parts of someone's genetic code that allows investigators to differentiate people by their DNA.

    Update: 10:52 a.m.

    Agent in CBI's biological science unit takes stand

    After a long morning break, CBI agent Ronald Arndt has taken the stand.

    Update: 9:52 a.m.

    CBI agent: No usable fingerprints on bat

    Retired fingerprint expert Vaughn Ballard said he was unable to detect on the Louisville Slugger baseball bat any usable fingerprints that could used for comparison.

    snip

    Ballard is undergoing cross-examination now.

    Update: 9:16 a.m.

    Fingerprint expert discusses baseball bat

    Retired fingerprint expert Vaughn Ballard has been called to the witness box by the prosecution.

    Ballard, who worked for more than 40 years with the Denver Police Department and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, testified that he examined the baseball bat in the Chase case while working for CBI.

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    read entire article here: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/19/susannah-chase-diego-alcalde-boulder-murder-cu/
     
  15. Little

    Little Member

    It's nice to be able to contribute something KK :)
     
  16. LurkerXIV

    LurkerXIV Moderator

    Thank you, Little

    I didn't even know there had been an arrest.

    Thanks for bringing us up to date.

    I always wondered if the Chase case would be solved.
     
  17. Greenleaf

    Greenleaf FFJ Senior Member

    Lurker

    Good Lord! Lurker is back!! :rose:

    Hello there, sister woman...we all missed you.

    Glad to see you back posting.

    Best wishes,

    gl
     
  18. Karen

    Karen Member

    I wonder if Ronald Arndt is related to Linda Arndt?
     
  19. Little

    Little Member

    Jury hears from Alcalde

    CHASE TRIAL BLOG: Jury hears from Alcalde
    By John Aguilar (Contact)
    Originally published 09:11 a.m., June 22, 2009
    Updated 05:47 p.m., June 22, 2009
    Camera reporter John Aguilar is covering Diego Olmos Alcalde's murder trial and will be filing live updates throughout the day from the courtroom in Boulder District Court.

    Alcalde, 39, is charged with beating and raping 23-year-old University of Colorado senior Susannah Chase on Dec. 21, 1997 and leaving her in a Boulder alley to die.

    Update: 5:47 p.m.

    For the first time in the trial, jurors heard from Diego Olmos Alcalde.

    Prosecutors played a videotaped interview from Jan. 28, 2008 between Boulder police detectives Chuck Heidel and Jane Harmer and the defendant at Boulder police headquarters.

    Alcalde appeared on the screen wearing a grey t-shirt and glasses, with a bag of McDonald's food in front of him. He had a tattoo on the upper part of his right arm.

    The video had several obvious choppy edits -- places on the tape where the lawyers in the case agreed certain statements should not be played in open court.

    The tape opened with Heidel telling Alcalde he didn't have to speak without a lawyer present.

    With a heavy accent, Alcalde agreed to start answering questions.

    "I don't have nothing to hide," he said.

    Heidel asked him if he was willing to talk about the Susannah Chase homicide.

    "I have no idea about that," said Alcalde, looking visibly agitated at times.

    Alcalde began crying at one point during the interview and said "they did me wrong in Wyoming."

    snip

    Update: 4:32 p.m.

    Update: 4:32 p.m.

    Chuck Heidel, a detective with the Boulder Police Department, answered a series of questions from prosecutor Ryan Brackley about how evidence was kept in the case.

    He said everything was properly labeled and transferred from one investigator to the next.

    Heidel also said he interviewed Diego Alcalde on Jan. 26, 2008.

    The judge called for a five-minute break.

    Update: 4:06 p.m.

    Boulder police detective Chuck Heidel was next to take the stand Monday afternoon.

    Heidel was one of the lead detectives on the case.

    He told the jury that he collected all of the clothes worn by Nick and Andy Heimerl the morning they were out with Susannah Chase. Andy Heimerl was Chase's boyfriend at the time she was attacked.

    snip

    Update: 3:25 p.m.

    Defense brings unknown male DNA from bat to forefront

    CBI lab agent Yvonne Woods underwent immediate challenge from Diego Alcalde's lawyer, Steven Jacobson, Monday afternoon during cross-examination.

    He picked apart her most recent statement during questioning by prosecutors that it would be "unlikely" that the male DNA profile found on the handle of the baseball bat belonged to the person who swung it at Susannah Chase's head. Blood from the bat and from the crime scene matched Chase's DNA, Woods testified.

    snip

    Update: 2:21 p.m.

    Lab agent of defendant's DNA: 'They match at every location'

    A lab agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation told the jury Monday afternoon that DNA from Diego Olmos Alcalde matched DNA found on swabs taken from Susannah Chase's cervix and vagina.

    Yvonne Woods said she developed a profile of Alcalde from cheek swabs that were taken from him on Jan. 28, 2008 -- broken into 13 locations along his DNA strand -- and compared it to sperm found inside Chase.

    "There were no differences between those two profiles," Woods testified. "They match at every location."

    She said the chance of someone else being the source of the sperm -- aside from an identical twin of Alcade's -- was 1 in 8.2 quadrillion. Quadrillion is equal to 10 to the 15th power.

    snip

    Update: 1:44 p.m.

    CBI lab agent to testify about 2008 DNA tests

    Yvonne Woods, a lab agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, has just taken the stand.

    She will testify about DNA testing she did regarding the Susannah Chase case in 2008.

    Update: 11:45 a.m.

    DNA analyst steps down from witness box

    A former DNA analyst with private company Analytical Genetic Testing Center, which received evidence in 2000 for testing in the Susannah Chase case, spent a short period of time on the stand this morning.

    Stephen Zelik was asked by prosecutor Ryan Brackley whether degraded or a lesser concentrations of sperm detected in Chase's vagina, as opposed to that found in her cervix, meant that the person who deposited the sperm in the cervix could be ruled out as the person who deposited sperm in the vagina.

    He said no.

    snip

    Update: 11:24 a.m.

    Defense attorney Steven Jacobson honed in the fact that a private DNA analysis laboratory found a higher concentration of sperm on Susannah Chase's cervical swabs than on her vaginal swabs.

    He attempted to ask DNA analyst Seven Glidewell, an employee with the now defunct Analytical Genetic Testing Center, if that meant that the sperm found inside her had had time to migrate inward.

    Diego Olmos Alcalde's defense team has cited the location of sperm found in Chase -- more in her cervix than in her vagina -- as evidence that whoever had intercourse with her did so long before she was attacked the morning of Dec. 21, 1997. They have suggested that Alcalde had consensual sex with Chase but had nothing to do with beating her.

    The prosecution objected, saying Glidewell was not an expert on anatomy.

    Update: 10:39 a.m.

    DNA analysis expert testifies about his work

    Steven Glidewell, who did DNA analysis for the now defunct Analytical Genetic Testing Center, told the jury about receiving items from the Susannah Chase case in March 2000 for testing.

    He talked about the chain of custody regarding the items and who signed off on what.

    The jury is now on a break.

    Update: 10:08 a.m.

    Defense attorney Steven Jacobson challenged CBI agent Ron Arndt on his DNA analysis of the handle of the baseball bat, which police believe was used to strike Susannah Chase on the head repeatedly.

    He focused on a particular region of DNA on the bat and asked Arndt if it's possible it included genetic material from multiple sources. Arndt said it was possible.

    Jacobson asked Arndt if he had done his analysis to fit the government's theory as to whose DNA was on the bat handle. He said he hadn't.

    snip

    Update: 9:11 a.m.

    Prosecution says it will rest case Wednesday

    Prosecutor Ryan Brackley told the court this morning that he believes the prosecution's case against Diego Olmos Alcalde will wrap up by Wednesday.

    He told the judge that the defense should be ready to call its first witnesses no later than Wednesday afternoon.

    snip
    Read entire story here: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/22/susannah-chase-diego-alcalde-boulder-murder-cu/
     
  20. Elle

    Elle Member

    I'll catch up on this later! Thank you for posting this information, Little.
     
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