1/ Here’s a forensic science mystery that stumped lawyers, police, and even the accused killer himself. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …pic.twitter.com/kgIgqkEbkq
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6/ Anderson was arrested and charged with murder because his DNA had been found on the body. As he and his lawyer looked at the DNA results, Anderson tried to make sense of a crime he had no memory of committing. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …pic.twitter.com/ip6coMoltQ
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7/ “I drink a lot, and I black out sometimes,” he remembers telling his public defender Kelley Kulick. “Maybe I was there, and I don’t remember.”https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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8/ “Let’s just hit the pause button till we go through all the evidence and figure out what happened,” Kulick told her client. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …pic.twitter.com/339ESUP9qb
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9/ In early adulthood, Anderson was diagnosed with a mental health disorder and diabetes. He also developed an alcohol addiction. One day, while drunk, he got into an accident that severely impaired his memory.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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10/ As a result of the accident, Anderson could lose track of days at a time. He ended up questioning his own innocence, even though, he says, “deep down I knew I didn’t do it.”https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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11/ Months would pass before anyone figured it out, but Anderson’s DNA had somehow found its way onto the fingernails of a dead man he had never encountered. So how did it happen? https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …pic.twitter.com/xZTYHdfMGv
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12/12 Don’t miss
@katieworth’s investigation — produced in collaboration with@frontlinepbs and@wired — into how this forensic mystery was finally solved. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/04/19/framed-for-murder-by-his-own-dna?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …pic.twitter.com/ncoqWXT0Om
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