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| DNA Evidence From 1992 Led to Murder Charges Today |
| By evanston.patch.com - Jennifer Fisher |
| Published: 06/04/2013 |
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ILLINOIS - Between 1992 and 2013, countless police officers looked through the case file of Deeondra Dawson, a 25-year-old woman who was brutally stabbed to death in her apartment on Sherman Avenue 21 years ago. It wasn’t until the last twelve months, however, that investigators finally got a break in the case, thanks to good evidence collection at the scene and advances in DNA technology. “Sometimes it is an excruciating, plodding process, but we don’t forget the victims and we don’t forget the families,” Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington told reporters during a press conference Friday. Sgt. Steven Goldenberg, who was an evidence technician in 1992, collected swabs of possible DNA evidence from Dawson’s body after she was found lying in a pool of blood in her apartment at 634 Sherman Ave., according to Evanston Police Cmdr. Jason Parrott, a spokesperson for the department. The state crime lab analyzed the swabs at the time, but no matches appeared, and the evidence was stored at the Evanston Police Station for years. Read More. |
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