DNA typing on the jeans, vehicle and house match the DNA profile of Dorothy Tucker.
— CHSJ News (@chsjnews) November 10, 2016
Two years after the death of 53 year old Dorothy Tucker of Oak Haven and her son’s second degree murder trial continues in Saint John.
Matthew Tucker is charged with second degree murder in her shooting death.
The jury hearing from bloodstain pattern analyst Sgt. Trevor Penney
who works out of Halifax.
He took swabs from the Tucker home and from a white Ford escape.
In Dorothy Tucker’s bedroom he took swabs from the floor, the bed, a dresser and in two different areas of the wall.
He notes stains and tears on a pair of jeans that were sent to the RCMP crime lab in Ottawa for analysis.
DNA profiling expert Michelle Mascioli testifies that swabs collected from Dorothy Tucker’s bedroom test positive for her blood.
Her blood and Matthew Tucker’s blood are on the pair of jeans.
Blood was identified in several areas of the jeans.
— CHSJ News (@chsjnews) November 10, 2016
