From: Jasper
Date: 1/4/01
Time: 10:04:02 PM
Jean,
The answer is, yes.
There was plenty of blood known to be O.J.'s that was available from many sources. Some had EDTA in it and some didn't. The blood on Rockingham didn't. That's the blood trail that fits O.J.'s alibi.- a fact that he is STILL unaware of. These are the drops that Dr. Lee said came from a small cut.
The problem with the Bundy blood drops on the ground, which could not have come from a small cut but supposedly tested positive for O.J., is that it was not tested for EDTA and the levels of DNA were inconsistent. One stain wasn't even the same color and there was one that was so degraded that no DNA results could be obtained. That's why the defense argued that the stains tested positive because they were degraded and cross contaminated with samples of DNA produced by the aerosol effect when Yamauchi opened the vacuum-sealed purple-top test tube with O.J.'s blood in it.
I'm sure that they are wrong and that the samples were switched.
The problem with not being able to tell whether the Bundy blood drops had EDTA in them or not is that we cannot eliminate one of the possibilities for its source based on its presence or its absence. Therefore, it takes more work to find the most probable scenario to explain the positive results than most people are prepared to do. The only scenario that fits ALL of the evidence is that the samples were switched. The who, where, when and how if is tough because we don't have all the relevant facts and the defense never pursued the issue.
The switched blood could have come from Rockingham as you suggested, from a trash can or a syringe as Maggie suggested, or right from the vial that Yamauchi said he spilled accidentally when he was testing the glove. The blood on the glove and the socks that tested positive for O.J.'s DNA were loaded with EDTA.
Don't forget that the blood on the Rockingham glove that tested positive for O.J.'s DNA was found in the notch at the wrist. Now take a good look at the Bundy glove (2) that Fuhrman is pointing to on page 621 of Iago. Look at the pattern of blood drops (5) leading away from the notch on THAT glove. My position is that the person who put that glove where it was photographed planed for the blood to be planted in the notch with a story of a blood trail coming away from the glove. I'm pretty sure that the blood was planted on the wrong glove, and Yamauchi's "accidental" spill was a cover for the mistake. O.J.'s blood in that spot on that glove makes no sense whatsoever. If it had appeared in the same place on the Bundy glove with a blood trail running away from it, that would have been different. In that case, you can bet that the three blood drops, all within an inch of the glove, would have tested positive for O.J.'s blood, too. --Jasper