[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Variola ret) writes:
>
>http://latimes.com/editions/ventura/la-000019157mar16.story?coll=la%2Deditions%2Dventura
>
> VENTURA COUNTY
> Canine DNA Helps Land a Conviction
> Simi Valley: Hair from victim's dog was genetically matched to fibers on
> the pants of the defendant in burglary and assault case.
>
> After a hard-fought trial in Ventura County Superior Court, a Simi
> Valley burglar and would-be rapist was proved guilty by a hair.
>
> A dog hair.
>
> It belonged to a black-and-white Shih Tzu named Casper, whose furious
> barking the night of Sept. 22, 2000, alerted his owner to an intruder
> in her bedroom. When the man fled after a brutal rape attempt, he left
> with the dog's hair on his pants. Those fibers were later matched to
> Casper by scientists and introduced as evidence. Last month, they
> helped convict 24-year-old Soum Laykham of residential burglary
> and assault with intent to commit rape in one of the state's first
> criminal cases involving the use of canine DNA.
>
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