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DNA Found at Occupy Site a Clue to 2004 Murder?

Sarah Fox's killer never found

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 11, 2012 9:54 AM CDT

(Newser) – Could DNA found at an Occupy Wall Street protest site help to solve a 2004 murder? In March, a chain was used to prop open a subway emergency exit door, allowing Occupiers to ride free. Police ran the DNA found on the chain in hopes of tracking down the culprit—but instead of a name they found a match. The New York Times reports that some of the DNA is the same as that found on a portable CD player belonging to Sarah Fox, a 21-year-old Juilliard student who disappeared while jogging in a New York City park. Her naked body was found nearly a week later, and the CD player was found nearby a few days after that.

Police stressed that the person who touched both the CD player and the chain may not be the killer. "Whether it’s a friend or the bad guy, we have to find out," a law enforcement official tells the Times. Authorities say Fox was strangled; her body was found surrounded by tulip petals. No one was ever charged, but suspicion focused on Dimitry Sheinman, an artist and construction worker, who has denied being involved.

This is an undated file photo of Juilliard student Sarah Fox of Pennsauken, NJ.
This is an undated file photo of Juilliard student Sarah Fox of Pennsauken, NJ.   (AP Photo/New York Police Department, File)
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tinapowers
Jul 12, 2012 8:42 AM CDT
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tinapowers
Jul 12, 2012 8:42 AM CDT
The authors Daniel Simone and Heidi Ley, are developing a book, A Rip in History. Unlike all the previous books and stories that have depicted Charles Manson as the most evil mass murderer, Daniel Simone and Heidi Ley will outline and illustrate the true facts about Charles Manson, his followers, the Tate/LaBianca slaughter, and trial.  For the first time in    forty-two years the truth will be told as to how Vincent Bugliosi used Charles Manson's peculiar philosophy, unconventional ideals, and stupidity for his own self-serving gains. The book will offer substantiated and irrefutable revelations clearly evidencing that Charles Manson was convicted on nothing but far-fetched theories, hypothesis, and conjectures fabricated by Vincent Bugliosi’s vivid imagination. Moreover, every witness presented by Bugliosi were criminals who testified as they were instructed so to save themselves from being prosecuted for criminal charges that had been pending against them. As for the four killers who actually carried out the murders, contrary to Bugliosi's contention that they had been influenced and directed by Manson, Charles Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, and Leslie Van Houten, were violent, misguided youngsters with a history of psychotic behaviors and felonious dispositions. They did not need Manson's influence to commit those brutal killings.  These crazed sociopaths launched a murderous spree solely for self-gratification by reason of their vicious propensities and drug-ravaged minds. Just to be clear though, Charles Manson is not a guiltless choir boy. He’s an incorrigible felon, who, perhaps, might’ve wielded the emotional control over the killers to stop the Tate/LaBianca ambush. But Manson did not ever participate in mass murder, and as a matter of law, he should not have been indicted and, certainly, not convicted and sentenced to death for those homicides.  
MatrixLinx
Jul 11, 2012 10:20 AM CDT
So if you protest Wall Street and its crimes  you are a potential murderer?
 

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