The Colorado Bureau of Investigation was alerted to problems with a longtime DNA scientist’s work as early as 2018, but allowed the scientist to keep working until an intern raised alarm agai…
Yvonne “Missy” Woods, a forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigations, testifies in a Boulder courtroom on July 23, 2009, during the trial of Kevin Elmarr, who was accused of killing his ex-wife, Carol Murphy, in 1987. Elmarr was convicted in the 2009 trial, but that verdict was later overturned because jurors had not been allowed to hear evidence of alternate suspects. He was convicted again following a second trial in 2015.
“Management has become more aware of employees’ mental and emotional health as a result,” the report reads.The agency has since found that Woods cut corners in much of her DNA testing and then covered up her shortcuts by altering, deleting or omitting data in her lab work. She also omitted relevant facts from criminal justice records and tampered with DNA testing by omitting some results, the bureau found in an internal review.CBI expects to spend $7.
By March, the CBI had found problems in 652 of Woods’ cases between 2008 and 2023, and hadn’t yet finished a review of her cases between 1994 and 2008. CBI Director Chris Schaefer called her work an “unprecedented breach of trust.” The agency has not addressed how the errors in Woods’ DNA testing went unnoticed for decades., and sought another $4.
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