1.Stephanie Stanley — Direct

STEPHANIE STANLEY: My name is Stephanie Stanley, S-t-a-n-l-e-y.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I'm employed by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, more commonly referred to as SLED.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I've been employed with SLED in the DNA casework department since February of 2005.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: A little over 14.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I have a Bachelor's of Science degree from Clemson University. I completed a training program at SLED where I learned evidence handling, serology, or the identification of body fluids. I learned DNA analysis, extraction, quantitation and amplification of DNA, DNA interpretation, and statistics as it relates to DNA analysis.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Approximately 35.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Let me start with serology, because serology is the identification of body fluids. Typically the body fluids that we're talking about are blood, semen and saliva, for their use in DNA testing. So once we identify something as potential blood, semen or saliva, we attempt to identify a DNA profile from that item. DNA is a chemical that's found in all of our cells, with the exception of your red blood cells, and half of your DNA comes from your mom, and half of your DNA comes from your dad. Most of our DNA, among humans, is the same. But in forensics we're interested in a very small portion of our DNA that's different which allows us to tell individuals apart from one another. In our lab we looked at 15 locations on the DNA, and the information from all those locations combined gives us what is known as a DNA profile. And no two people have the same DNA profile, with the exception of identical twins.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, ma'am.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: DNA analysis was performed on item 64.1, which were the swabs taken from the handle of the bucket. And the partial DNA profile developed from that item matches the DNA profile of Merah Jones. And the probability of randomly selecting an unrelated individual having a DNA profile matching this partial DNA profile on this item is 1 in approximately 83,000.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: DNA analysis was performed on this item and the partial DNA profile developed from item number 98, the piece of biological material, matches the DNA profile of Elias Jones. The probability of randomly selecting an unrelated individual having a DNA profile matching this partial DNA profile is approximately 1 in 44 billion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Billion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I first checked the item to see if there was any chance that the item had blood on it and presumptive testing for blood was positive. I then performed DNA analysis --

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir. This item is -- came to me in the form of swabs. I would have taken a snippet of that item and preformed a chemical test that reacts positive if blood could be present.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I performed DNA analysis on this item, and the DNA profile developed from item 102 matches the DNA profile of Nahtahn Jones. The probability of randomly selecting an unrelated individual having a DNA profile matching this item is approximately one in 370 quadrillion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Quadrillion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Right. Million, billion, trillion, quadrillion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, I do.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Verinna Rivera is a forensic serologist in the DNA casework department.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Correct.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Verinna would have looked at this item. Anything that's much larger than a swab or a cutting goes to our serology section and they're going to look for biological material, those biological stains. And once they're identified they would take a cutting. As you can see next to that 110.1 there's a hole. She would have taken a cutting from that area and forwarded it back to me for analysis.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I performed DNA testing on that item.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: The partial DNA profile developed from item 110.1, which is the cutting from the pillow, matches the DNA profile of Gabriel Jones. The probability of randomly selecting an unrelated individual having a DNA profile matching this item is approximately one in 28 quadrillion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir. It is.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: 89.1 would have been swabs collected from that sun shade.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I performed DNA analysis on that item.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: The DNA profile developed from 89.1 matches the DNA profile of Abigail Jones. The probability of randomly selecting an unrelated individual having a DNA profile matching this item is approximately 1 in 34 quadrillion -- I'm sorry, quintillion.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: I have got some.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Correct.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: This portion right there, when it was submitted for analysis, was not intact.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: When it was submitted for analysis it was not intact.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes. Forensic serologist, Verinna Rivera, would have swabbed this item. You can see where one portion starts and stops. This is 772.1, 772.2. A lot of times items like this, we will swab the inside portion separate from the outside portion. And we were trying to identify probably two portions.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: Yes, sir. I performed DNA analysis on that item.

STEPHANIE STANLEY: The DNA profile developed from 77.2.1 is a mixture of at least two individuals. A DNA mixture simply means that more than one person is contributing DNA from that item. The partial DNA profile of the major contributor, or who's contributing the most of that item, matches the DNA profile of Gabriel Jones. The probability of randomly selecting an unrelated individual having a DNA profile matching the major contributor to this item is approximately 1 in 570,000.