How DNA Can Frame the Innocent

Think of DNA like glitter.

If you shake hands with someone wearing glitter, you get it on your hands. If you then touch a door handle, you leave that glitter there.

You never touched the door handle. But your "glitter" is there.

This is how "Touch DNA" works. Your DNA can be carried to a crime scene by someone else.

It sounds impossible, but it happens. Watch the story of Lukis Anderson, an innocent man charged with murder because of DNA transfer.

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Proof It Happened to Elmo

Elmo Rivadeneira is currently in prison because of this exact scientific error. We have the proof that his DNA moves to places he has never been.

📄 Exhibit J: The Suppressed "Bode Report"
The 2011 Lab Report finding sperm on the attacker's overalls that EXCLUDED Elmo. 📄 Exhibit E: The "H.T." Identification
Police report where the victim identifies the real attacker (Dean Crawford). 📱 Exhibit D: The Cell Phone Evidence
Proof that the "blood" on the phone was actually just transfer touch DNA.

What the Experts Say

"Touch-Transfer DNA Poses High Risk of Wrongful Conviction"
Criminal Legal News (Jan 2025) NIST Report: Improving Forensic DNA Practice
National Institute of Standards and Technology (2024) "How Misuse of DNA Evidence Has Led to Miscarriages of Justice"
The Justice Gap (Jan 2017) "DNA in the Dock: How Flawed Techniques Send Innocent People to Prison"
The Guardian Investigation "Lack of Academic Research on Secondary DNA Transfer"
Criminal Legal News (Oct 2019)

The Story Doesn't End Here

The DNA error is only part of the problem. See the extent the prosecution went to convict Elmo—ignoring victims who identified other men.

⚠️ REVEAL THE REAL SUSPECTS

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