The Scottish Mail on Sunday

THE 5 CRUCIAL PIECES OF EVIDENCE – AND OUR MAN’S TESTIMONY – THAT JUDGES IGNORED

- THE DNA TEST THE CRIME LAB SABOTAGE THE BITE MOULD THE SHOE PRINT THE HIDDEN LAB PAPERS

Various appeal courts refused to examine evidence of Carlton Gary’s innocence, which included:

The first victim, Gertrude Miller, identified Gary as her attacker in the most dramatic point of his trial. But DNA testing on semen on her nightdress and sheets proves she was raped by someone else.

A semen sample from another victim, locked away for years, was rendered useless after someone at the Georgia state crime lab smeared their own semen over the precious slide.

Also hidden for years was a mould of the killer’s teeth, made from a bite wound on another victim. It did not match Gary’s teeth.

The killer left shoeprints on an airconditi­oning unit at one of the crime scenes. They were size 9, but Gary has size 14 feet – as MoS reporter David Rose testified at a 2014 appeal hearing.

Documents unearthed 14 years after the 1986 trial show that the killer was a ‘non-secretor’ – a condition that means a person does not secrete his blood group marker into other bodily fluids. Gary is a secretor – as David Rose proved when he smuggled a sample of Gary’s semen out of prison after visiting him on death row.

 ??  ?? APPEAL: David Rose giving evidence at the 2014 hearing and, below, how we reported it
APPEAL: David Rose giving evidence at the 2014 hearing and, below, how we reported it

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