Criminalist Brenda Smith started testing items from this case on July 11, 2003.

DNA profile were produced for Brothers, Earnestine Harper, Joanie Harper and Marques, Lyndsey and Marshall Harper.l

Finger nail clippers were tested from Joanie Harper’s hands. She also swabbed the casings and pieces of latex.

DNA resulted from the clippings, limited results from the cartridge casings and for one of the latex pieces, but not the second. One of the glove tips was found under Joanie Harper’s upturned purse and one in the back yard. The glove tip under the items from Joanie’s purse had DNA on it.

It was a very, very weak results from the cartridge casings.

She determined the sex of the contributor and two peaks of DNA fingerprinting, which is not enough to make a conclusion.

For the fingernail clippings, Joanie Harper could not be eliminated as the contributor. She was able to eliminate all the other five individuals including Earnestine, Lyndsey, Marques, Marshall and Brothers.
The glove tip revealed a DNA mixture, meaning from more than one individual, a male and female mixture. It appeared he was a major contributor to this mixture. She could not eliminate Earnestine and Marques. It was inconclusive as to Joanie, Lyndsey and Marshall.

A mixture means a sample from more than one individual.

She cannot give a maximum of individuals who contributed because some people might share certain DNA characteristics.

She finished the report on April 30, 2004.