DOJ DNA specialist testfies that blood on Jason Warren's shoe and DNA from KIA matches victims

This morning DOJ senior criminalist Kay Belschner finished her testimony, she was follwed by Don Dunbar, the supervising criminalist from the Eureka office but the key testimony came from DOJ criminalist Rebecca Gaxiola from the Redding office who specializes in DNA analysis.

The blood on Warren's left shoe was a match to Dorothy's Ulrich DNA. Swabs taken of blood and tissue from the KIA matched Suzanne Seemann, Terri Vroman Little and Jessica Hunt.

Officer Rick Chandler testified before the morning session ended about two incidents in McKinleyville, one a stabbing of a City Cab driver, from 2001. This is related to a previous conviction of Warren when he was a juvenile.

On April 10, 2001, Officer Chandler was working the graveyard shift. At 3:15 a.m, he was dispatched to an address in the Silkwood subdivision of McKinleyville. At 3:18 a.m. he made contact with the victim, the homeowner and a witness.

A man was on the porch "curled up in a fetal position". He was later identified as Sid Miller. Officer Chandler could not get a response from Miller. "His eyes were open, basically he was staring ahead, chest making gurgling sounds, he had labored breathing." Officer Chandler did a brief examination of Miller. He appeared to have stab wounds to the chest, back and shoulder. His shirt was wet and it appeared to be blood."

Miller had a City Cab logo on the shirt he was wearing and Officer Chandler issued an alert for the cab. The ambulance was already on the way when Officer Chandler was dispatched and another HCSO Deputy arrived on the scene at the same time as emergency personnel.

The medical personnel cut off Miller's shirt and it was placed into evidence by Officer Chandler. Miller was taken to Mad River Community Hospital. Just as Officer Chandler was arriving at the hospital, he got another dispatch about an incident on Spear Avenue. He briefed his supervising officer and also gave information to Arcata Police Department's Sgt. Brown and HCSO Sgt. Parton.