DNA link from Occupy Wall Street protest to unsolved murder debunked

By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout –

New York Post)

A day after reportsthat DNA found at an Occupy Wall Street-affiliated protest had been matched to an unsolved murder case, a law enforcement official said the link was a lab mistake—and not a break.

On Tuesday, an unnamed law enforcement officialsaid DNA found on a chain at a Brooklyn protest in March matched the genetic material collected from a 2004 crime scene where Sarah Fox, a Juilliard student, was found dead. Several news outlets, including the Associated Press, New York Post and NBC, reported the story.

But on Wednesday, another unnamed "law enforcement official" said that the DNA was actually from a lab worker who handled both cases.

"During the process of excluding people who may have handled evidence, it was determined the DNA came from a lab worker who dealt with both cases," the AP said.