“A judge will allow a DNA expert to testify in the murder trial of a man charged in the death of his estranged wife.”

“The DNA testing was done by a private Richmond, Calif., lab because at the time of the murder, the state crime lab did not perform tests necessary for small samples.”

SERI developed a DNA profile matching the victim from minute traces of blood among the leaf fragments found in the suspect’s car. Read more from Deseret News here.