[Dave_in_Upland]

Jennifer Shen, the witness, stated on direct exam (I posted it much earlier on this thread) that the fiber came to be there at time of death/placement at Dehesa.

Ms. Shen also stated on cross examination that such a statement was nothing more than a guess.

My experience with hair and necklaces and little girls is that it could have been there for a very long time. The fiber was tangled into a ball with hair. That entanglemane does not happen suddenly. It takes quite a while for the random movements of the hair and the fiber and the necklace and the skin to truely tangle something. That is one of the reasons that I have totally dismissed most of the fiber evidence (besides the fact that no one has any idea where it could have came from except DVD's alma mater).

[UCANSEE2]

It is more than likely that if the fiber was tangled in hair that was tied in a knot/tangled up on the choker, That IT had been there FOR A WHILE before her ABDUCTION.

[cyncooper]

See my posting of the cross-exam in question.

BTW, it sounds like much more than the normal amount of hair one would encounter beween necklace and hair.

I wonder if they showed the jury the clump of hair? Do you have that testimony handy?