Ford defense calls crime lab critic
By Craig Kapitan, San Antonio Express News
Updated 02:16 a.m., Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A DNA expert known nationally for her criticism that led to the temporary shuttering of Houston's crime lab turned a skeptical eye to Bexar County's procedures Tuesday as testimony resumed in the high-profile murder trial of Jon Thomas Ford.
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson described the DNA analysis of a bloody towel found over the head of Dana Clair Edwards, 32, as potentially “sloppy.”
Ford, 43, was arrested in February 2010 — a little more than a year after Edwards, his ex-girlfriend, was found strangled on the floor of her guest bathroom. Her dog Grit was found dead at nearby Olmos Dam a week later.
Ford told police he was home asleep in the first hours of New Year's Day 2009, when the killing is believed to have occurred, but his cellphone records suggest otherwise. The eventual link of Ford's DNA to the towel was one of the major breaks in the case that led to the arrest, authorities have said.
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