Responding for the 500th time to the Landlord's specious evidentiary claims...
In 1995, MacDonald's advocates implied that something nefarious occurred with a specific evidentiary item. In preparation for the 1974-1975 Grand Jury hearings, the FBI did a forensic re-analysis of all the evidentiary items with the exception of blood typing. In 1974, Brian Murtagh hand-carried the evidence to Paul Stombaugh and when Stombaugh found a head hair twisted with a pajama seam thread, the MacDonald defense team began to ask specific questions.
For example, the defense team knew that in 1970, the CID did not list a head hair twisted with a pajama seam thread. Once they discovered that Murtagh delivered the vial that contained this evidentiary item, they began to wonder whether Murtagh had manufactured this trace evidence. The documented record, however, provides a more prosaic explanation. In 1970, the CID listed two pieces of blood-soaked thread being found in the multi-colored bedspread, and designated this evidentiary item as CID Exhibit D-229. In 1974, Paul Stombaugh noted two long pieces of blood-soaked thread with one of those threads having a head hair twisted with it. Stombaugh added that the head hair had traces of blood along its shaft.
Stombaugh labeled the debris as FBI Exhibit Q96, the seam thread was soaked in water to remove the hair, and the hair was then placed on a slide. Stombaugh stated in his notes that "the hair had no root, but was probably broken due to blow to head." Stombaugh then compared the hair to head hair exemplars from the MacDonald family and the hair microscopically matched the hair of Colette MacDonald. In order for the defense theory to work, Brian Murtagh would have had to have found an extraneous broken, bloody head hair from Colette, and twisted it around an extraneous bloody seam thread from Jeffrey MacDonald's pajamas.
In terms of the fibers found on the club, Fred Bost never definitively stated that fibers from inmate's torn pajama top were not found on the club. What he did claim was that there was a distinct possibility that the CID and FBI misidentified these fibers. In 1970, CID chemist Dillard Browning labeled the debris found on the club as CID Exhibit E-205. Browning noted that two pajama fibers were found adhering to the club in Colette MacDonald's blood and he subsequently placed the two fibers in a vial.
In 1974, FBI physical science technician Shirley Green labeled the debris from the club as FBI Exhibit Q89. Green placed the pajama fibers in a pillbox, and Paul Stombaugh later matched the fibers to the seam threads from Jeffrey MacDonald's pajama top. In 1989, the FBI took two color photographs of the seam threads in the pillbox and the photographs were labeled as FBI Exhibits 76 and 77. The documented record clearly indicates that both pajama fibers and dark woolen fibers were found on the club.
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