[ElkGroveDan]

I’m not convinced either. How do they know the DNA was transfered five weeks AFTER the abduction? Could it have been from a cloth or towel used to car for a skinned knee or nose-bleed and then thrown in the trunk PRIOR TO her abduction?

[elizabetty]

How do they know the DNA was transfered five weeks AFTER the abduction?

It is a car the parents rented 4 weeks after she went missing. Do you understand? The parents did not have possession of the car in which the girl's blood was found until 25 days after she was reported missing.

[freespirited]

Could it have been from a cloth or towel used to car for a skinned knee or nose-bleed and then thrown in the trunk PRIOR TO her abduction?

No they did not have the car prior to her abduction. My question is how they know the DNA could not have come other sources, such as her little sister, who started wearing her clothes after she disappeared. Or Kate's clothes, which you would expect to have Madeleine's DNA all over them.

[utahagen]

The McCanns’ lawyers will argue — perhaps successfully — what you are arguing, but I for one don’t buy it. If there was any blood in these samples, scientists will be able to tell if the person whose blood it was was alive or dead (or dying) — something to do with the white blood cell count — when the blood was shed. If it turns out that (dead) Madeleine’s blood was in the trunk of a car rented three weeks after she abducted...well, the McCanns better hope they get some jurors as dumb as the OJ Simpson jurors.

[infowarrior]

I’m not convinced either. How do they know the DNA was transfered five weeks AFTER the abduction?

Rental records for the vehicle show the Mc Canns rented the vehicle 25 days *after* they reported Madeleine missing.How could the scenario you posit then occur, as the car wasn't in the posession of the Mc Canns?

the infowarrior