October 2004
Akron Beacon Journal: Brian Wraxall’s prior analysis referenced again years later.
"The finding that the stains were probably from perspiration was revealed in court in 1996 based on years-earlier independent testing by Brian Wraxall, chief forensic blood expert of the Serological Research Institute in Richmond, Calif."
October 2003
Santa Clarita Signal: SERI Helps with Solving Rape Cases
“The National Rape Evidence Project (NREP) offered the $50,000 grant, which will go toward nine unsolved cases dating back to 1977, with the help of the Serological Research Institute.”
May 2003
Los Angeles Times: Tom Fedor testifies suspect’s DNA matched DNA on the evidence.
"Tom Fedor, a forensic serologist at the Serological Research Institute in Richmond, CA., said evidence from a few of the victims matched Rathbun's DNA."
March 2002
The Exoneration of Alejandro Dominguez
"In 2001, Lake County Circuit Court Judge Raymond McKoski granted a motion for DNA testing — at Dominguez's expense. And in March 2002, the results of the testing by the Serological Research Institute in Richmond, [...]
January 2001
North County Times: Gary Harmor testifies that he matched DNA to defendant and victim.
"Forensics serologist Gary Harmor, a specialist in analyzing bodily fluids, testified that DNA samples he examined from the murder scene matched the defendant David Paul Frediani and the victim Helena Greenwood. Harmor testified the likelihood [...]
June 2000
North County Times: SERI finds DNA under victim’s fingernails.
"A DNA expert from the Serological Research Institute testified at a preliminary hearing in March that the DNA tests showed with 100 percent certainty that material scraped from one of Greenwood's fingernails was Frediani's dried [...]
May 2000
South Florida Sun Sentinel: 20 Year Old Case Ends with an Arrest after DNA Testing
SERI analyzes key piece of evidence in a 20 year old unsolved case.
June 1999
The Kansas City Star: Gary Harmor testifies about DNA found in suspect’s car.
"Gary Harmor of the SERI Labs in Richmond, Calif., said high-level DNA tests showed that Davis' blood was found in the trunk of Hopkins' car."
February 1998
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Gary Harmor testifies for prosecution in murder case.
"The experts who testified Friday were Gary Clayton Harmor, a senior forensic serologist from the Serological Research Institute in Richmond, Calif.'..." "Harmor and Maloney were prosecution witnesses who in separate instances performed different kinds of [...]
August 1996
Desert News: SERI performs tests for murder trial that state lab can’t do.
"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 [...]
January 1996
The Exoneration of Ray Krone
During Ray Krone's second trial, SERI provided exculpatory DNA evidence that was heard, but ultimately ignored, by the jury who convicted Krone a second time. Additional DNA evidence contributed to Krone's exoneration in 2002. Read [...]
August 1995
San Pedro News Pilot: SERI Helps ID El Segundo Bombing Suspect
SERI analyzes DNA from saliva of mailed bomb envelopes in El Segundo Police Department's first ever DNA-related case.