Lab contamination led to Occupy Wall Street vandalism, '04 murder link

Apparently a whopper of a mistake has been made by a New York City Police Department crime lab worker. Last night I reported here--based upon numerous media reports, that there was a DNA match between an Occupy Wall Street subway vandalism incident and a 2004 unsolved murder.

There was no match.

From the New York Daily News:

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.

The first sample of DNA was collected from a CD player found near the Juilliard student's nude body in Inwood Hill Park in 2004.

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