Blood Flag: A Paul Madriani Novel - Plot & Excerpts
Herman and I finally have results back from a private lab. The report shows what the lab believes to be a solid DNA profile for Ricardo Menard. The problem is, we have nothing to compare it with. Not for the moment anyway. We obtained a court order immediately after Sofia’s autopsy requiring the state to freeze the embryo taken from her body in order to preserve the evidence. But so far we have been unable to get beyond this. A subpoena filed in Emma’s case earlier this week demanding DNA from the embryo as well as the microscopic scrapings from under her fingernails ran into problems when prosecutors objected. They wanted to know the evidentiary basis connecting the two cases, Sofia’s murder and Emma Brauer’s manslaughter charge. The only thing we had was Sofia’s telephone trinket found in Emma’s backyard, circumstantial evidence that, if she wasn’t murdered there, she at least arrived at that location before she was killed.
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