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...Vicente, "El Professor," who supposedly hired the assassins who killed Carlos. He was shot two years ago in an ambush, at the age of 39. But it wasn't until Sept. 1 that Casta?o's skeleton was dug out of a shallow grave in the jungle and identified by DNA testing. You wouldn't exactly call it a dignified burial for Casta?o, once the most feared man in Colombia. It was a faster death than Casta?o probably deserved; many of his victims were killed by chainsaw...
...Lessore”–is currently on display in the Fogg. As she gives the works by Sickert to Harvard, Cornwell isn’t giving up in her bid to establish a link between the artist and the killer. She hopes that DNA testing will provide her with further evidence to support her theory. “This isn’t over with yet,” she said.-Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
...Lacy changed course on Karr when it became clear that his DNA didn't match what was found at the scene of the crime. Her motion to quash the arrest warrant, though, quickly shifted attention away from Karr's delusional confessions toward Lacy's own handling of the investigation. Colorado Governor Bill Owens lambasted the DA for conducting what he called the most most extravagant and expensive DNA test in Colorado history, and Lacy said an evening caller told her she deserved to be tarred and feathered. At the press conference Tuesday Lacy defended her strategy and pledged...
...Norm Early, former Denver District Attorney and now spokesman for the National District Attorney's Association, says Lacy did nothing wrong. "If the DNA had come back as a match, no one would be questioning the fact that she brought him back and spent the money to do it. Everybody would be saying it was a brilliant move." Critics, however, say that among other things, Lacy grew too close to the Ramseys - she attended Patsy's funeral, they point out - and that she wasn't sufficiently skeptical of a mentally troubled trickster. If Lacy was duped, however...
...Such feuds aren't surprising, perhaps. After all, as Thorne says, "There are more human evolutionists than there are fossils to go along with them." And the argument isn't likely to be settled soon. DNA tests of the skeleton might prove conclusively that it's from a modern human, but DNA doesn't last long in the tropics, so any effort to recover genetic material is likely to fail. Meanwhile, the search for additional fossil evidence is on hold because Jakarta has barred further excavations at the site where the hobbit was found. For now, he remains in scientific...