Marathon Pundit: CORRECTED: DNA found at Occupy Wall Street vandalism site linked to 2004 murder

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

CORRECTED: DNA found at Occupy Wall Street vandalism site linked to 2004 murder

"F" the Police March, Chicago

Absolutely, positively, not like the Tea Party. From NBC 4 New York:

Officials have linked forensic evidence from the 2004 murder scene of a 21-year-old Juilliard student to the scene of a recent Occupy Wall Street subway vandalism, NBC 4 New York has learned.

Investigators have connected DNA evidence from the scene of Sarah Fox's murder in Inwood Hill Park eight years ago to DNA collected at the scene of an Occupy Wall Street subway station vandalism in March, NBC 4 New York was first to report.

Fox was found nude and strangled in the park in May 2004, days after she disappeared during a daytime jog. Investigators recovered her pink CD player in the woods just yards from her body.

Sources said Tuesday the DNA found on the CD player is linked to DNA found on a chain left by Occupy Wall Street protesters at the Beverly Road subway station in East Flatbush on March 28, 2012.

I hope that law enforcement is able to use this evidence to lock up the killer, although there is the possibility that the DNA came from someone else.

Oh, as I've stated before, the Occupy movement despises the police. Show me someone who hates cops--and I will show you a criminal.

UPDATE July 11: The New York Daily News has an update. To be blunt, this story has to be retracted.

A sloppy NYPD employee is responsible for a tantalizing DNA match that seemed to link the murder of Sarah Fox to an Occupy Wall Street protest, sources told the Daily News.

The worker, who processed evidence from both cases, will likely face departmental charges for not taking precautions to prevent tainting, the sources said.

The botched handling is an embarrassment for the NYPD -- which saw a potential break in a high-profile cold case morph into a red herring in one day.