When the SOP Isn’t Enough: How Elyssa Trautmann Solves Cold Cases at FDLE
Cold case DNA work doesn’t fail because analysts aren’t skilled. It stalls because evidence is old, degraded, or formatted in ways the standard operating procedure was never written to address. Sexual assault smears from 1983. Evidence packaged before current collection protocols existed. Items that don’t fit the workflow because the workflow was built for something […]