DNA - Dry to Wet | The Switch

Department of Public Safety DNA Analyst, Lorraine Heath, claims her strongest DNA partial profile was from a woman’s breast, who was face down, submerged in a tub filled with water. (Sorry to be so graphic but the details are important.) Although two witnesses testified they dried those swabs, Heath claims the swabs she had were wet and stored differently than all the other swabs in this case, and all the other Baseline cases. These two DNA swabs were not tested until 5 months later. The issues? If these swabs really were stored wet for 5 months before testing, then degradation is a probability making for unreliable to no results given that mold would have developed, and not to mention DNA dissolves in water. It would be nearly impossible for there to be any DNA considering the state the body was found (wet) much less with the issues of it being stored wet.  

Secondly, if two professional already testified, a doctor and detective, that they dried and then stored the swabs in a way to keep them dry, how is it that two swabs are wet once Heath becomes involved? These being only swabs she is able to get any results?

Inanimate things just don't morph into something different! It would be the same as if the State had put a pistol into evidence, but by the time the ballistics expert gets it, it changed to a rifle.

Every single swab and even useless extracts in this case were consumed/destroyed by the State. Not a single fiber that the defense could use for re-testing. Nothing.

Then there is the case of the woman who is murdered at a car wash with the surveillance video of the attacker pushing her into the back seat of her own car, and him getting into the driver’s seat and driving away. Yet the DNA in the “driving area” EXCLUDES Mark. The DNA is that of an “unknown male” better known as the real attacker. 

So how is it Heath is able to get a partial profile in a nearly impossible scenario of degradation from water and the mysterious switching of swabs, yet in a perfect scenario of the attacker’s DNA in the dry driving area – ignition, steering wheel, etc. – Mark is excluded? 

Not only does the DNA in this entire investigation make absolutely no sense and defies science, but every shred of DNA evidence has been entirely consumed/destroyed by the State/Lorraine Heath.