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The Hammer That Convicted Him - Evidence No One Read

The Hammer That Convicted Him - Evidence No One Read

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The Hammer That Convicted Him - Evidence No One Read

A discarded hammer found in a roadside ditch after a December storm carried blood that matched a murdered 61-year-old teacher - and a single partial fingerprint that matched the county's own evidence technician. How did one exhibit, logged as Exhibit 14 in Harwick County Superior Court case CR-7741, become the hinge for an arrest, a dismissal, two convictions, and a destroyed object that nobody read closely enough?

In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the plow blade striking the tool on the morning of December 9, 2011 to the hammer sitting on the defense table during eleven days of trial in October 2013, and we ask how a forensic evidence log could hold the question that decided the case.

Person: Deborah Vance
Date: December 9, 2011
Location: County Road 18; 4 Millstone Court, Fallston
Case: CR-7741
Exhibit: Exhibit 14 (hammer)

- 7:14 AM on December 9, 2011 - Bruce Burke's plow blade kicked a sixteen-ounce Estwing claw hammer into the ditch.
- The hammer was not present when Burke plowed the same stretch two days earlier on December 7, 2011.
- Biological material on the hammer head matched Deborah Vance at every tested DNA locus.
- A single latent print of eleven ridge characteristics was lifted from the steel collar of the hammer.
- The latent print matched Tina Okafor, the Harwick County forensic evidence technician who first processed the hammer at the road shoulder.

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