Better than ‘CSI’: High-tech DNA vacuum cracks cold case. Crime scene investigation shows are some of the most popular on television and some of my favorites. Who doesn’t love the “CSI” crime-fighting trio of Nick Stokes, Greg Sanders and Sara Sidle? But, as I learned researching this story, lots of the techniques used on those shows aren’t as advertised. One of the biggest discrepancies is the time it takes to match evidence to a suspect. On television it’s nearly instantaneous, but in real life it can take hours, days, weeks or months. Along the road to finding the newest CSI innovations, I came across a story in which technology really made a difference. Case in point: Wasatch County, Utah. Bonner did what he could. Why did he care so much about this girl? Then one day, everything changed. One of Bonner’s deputies asked if he could run some evidence using this new technology.
They had a match. The future looks bright for the men and women of law enforcement. Cigarette DNA Helps Utah Sheriff Solve Cold Case. This undated image provided by the Wasatch County, Utah, Sheriff’s Office shows Krystal Lynn Beslanowitch, 17, whose body was found Dec. 6, 1995, along the Provo River near Midway, Utah. A suspect, Joseph Michael Simpson, was arrested in Sarasota County, Fla., and will be brought to Utah within weeks to stand trial. Courtesy of AP Photo/Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office A cigarette butt proved to be the undoing of a man suspected of killing a girl in Utah 18 years ago, after a sheriff trailed him for four days to grab the DNA evidence. Without the efforts of Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner, the case would have been forgotten long ago. For Bonner, however, it was personal. As the original investigator in the bludgeoning death of the teenage prostitute in 1995, he couldn't let it go.
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