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From: Jasper
Date: 6/6/03
Time: 9:15:17 PM
Remote User:
John,
Good grief. You haven’t done your homework.
I’ll just take Lee’s shoeprint as a bite-sized example (the rest would take up a hundred pages – which have already been written and you either forgot or will not read)…
The testimony on this issue is long, convoluted, broken up, mixed with questions about the Bruno Magli’s and reliant on photos that are no longer available. There were many FAINT parallel (wavy) line patterns that Lee refused to identify as shoeprints. All he would say was that they were imprints. Many of them were incomplete and many were taken at angles that made it impossible to yield features that Lee was willing to call “scientific fact.” He made a sharp distinction between “interpretation” and “scientific fact.” However, he did identify one faint parallel line imprint as a “shoeprint – a heel to toe imprint in blood that crossed over one of the heavy Bruno Magli imprints. The photo was shown during the trial and it was noticeably smaller than the Bruno Magli imprint….
August 28:
MR. SCHECK: In terms of--you were asked--now, 1337-A is a photograph of a shoeprint, correct?
DR. LEE: Yes, sir.
MR. SCHECK: Is there any doubt in your mind that that is a shoeprint of a parallel line pattern?
DR. LEE: No.
MR. SCHECK: Is that a scientific fact?
DR. LEE: Yes.
Lee left it up to Special Agent Bodziak to identify the shoeprint. But Bodziak said that there were no shoes in the FBI database that matched Lee’s parallel line imprints. He picked out a parallel line IMPRESSION in the concrete and said that Lee mistook it for a bloody imprint. Lee was outraged and refused to go into it further.
A Problem of Evidence, page 147:
He [Lee] received almost 1,700 letters of support….from law enforcement personnel around the county including FBI personnel superior to Agent Bodziak…. He also received seventy-five photos of proven shoe imprints with parallel lines sent to him by criminalists and investigators across the criminal justice spectrum.
Oh, one more thing. The killer was over 6’ tall. Kato was 5’ 10. – Jasper