LA OCT-05-2004 Expert says DNA links Lee strongly to Pace homicide

[AmyStrange]

http://www.theadvertiser.com/newsupdate/html/A7680B6A-D11C-4F31-9CA9-869AE597344B.shtml



What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[AmyStrange]

1. Related article about DNA - OCT-05-2004

DNA is silent witness - LA
Victim’s roommate offers grisly testimony in first day of Lee trial
Richard Burgess
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October 5, 2004

The Associated Press

FROM: http://www.theadvertiser.com/news/html/6467A236-AE3B-4D1B-B7B8-79BD5FB07DB9.shtml
BATON ROUGE — Rebecca Yeager said the realization a murder had taken place came to her over a few seconds that seemed like an eternity. She arrived home the afternoon of May 31, 2002, and saw a half-eaten sandwich on the arm of a couch, then discovered her friend and roommate, 22-year-old Charlotte Murray Pace, lying on the floor.

“I noticed she was nude, and then I saw the blood all over the room. ... On the walls, in places where I didn’t understand how it could have gotten there,” Yeager testified Monday — the first day of accused serial killer Derrick Todd Lee’s murder trial in Baton Rouge.

Yeager said she frantically searched for a phone, called 911 and was asked by the person who answered if she could perform CPR. “That’s when I realized her throat was not just slit but cut open wide,” Yeager said, struggling through tears as she relived the day she found Pace’s body. Pace’s mother, Ann Pace, cried with her from the other side of the courtroom.

Yeager’s testimony, like much of the first day of the trial, was often graphic. She spoke of blood-spattered walls, a blood-soaked carpet and the stab wounds that marred Pace’s body.

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