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Officials to use genetic testing in Grissom case
By Rich Cornell Special to the Kansan
OLATHE — Genetic fingerprinting may prove that Richard Grissom Jr. killed three Johnson County women, a prosecutor said Monday. The trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 27.
The complex scientific procedure will link Grissom, 29, with the June 1989 disappearances of Joan M. Butler, 24, an Overland Park KU graduate, and Theresa Brown and Christine Rusch, 22-year-old Lenexa roommates, Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison said during a public hearing. The women's bodies have not been found.
District Court Judge William Gray set the date for the trial, which is expected to last four weeks. Gray also set hearing dates of June 11 and August 6. Grissom's public defenders, Andrew L. Warren and Michael Bartee.
Warren said during the preliminary hearing that negative publicity and politics could hamper Grissom's defense.
He wants to move the trial out of Johnson County.
Testimony about deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) first was used in Johnson County during a September murder trial.
Frank Booth, of the Regional Crime Lab in Kansas City, Mo., said DNA could be taken from samples such as hair, blood and semen stains. An enzyme then separates DNA particles by size.
Everyone has unique DNA particles, Booth said. An enzyme called a probe searches for particles that match those from a known source.
"It's really reliable," Booth said.
Testimony in Grissom's preliminary hearing revealed that pubic hairs taken from Grissom were indistinguishable in microscopic comparisons to those found in Rusch and
'Juries place considerable weight on that type of evidence. It's a growing scientific type of evidence that we'll see more and more.'
Douglas County district attorney
Brown's beds.
Attorneys and witnesses in the case have been ordered by a judge not to talk about any evidence except at court hearings.
Grissom has been convicted in the past of stealing a car and of misusing credit cards. Police also have said that as a juvenile, Grissom was found to have killed a woman in Leavenworth County.
Outside the hearing, Morrison would comment neither about the DNA tests nor about plans to bring up his father's past or pending criminal charges.
"It will be an issue," Morrison told Gray.
Grissom is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the three women. He also is charged with murder, burglary, theft in the case.
Genetic fingerprinting has never been used in a Douglas County trial, said Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney.
In general, jurors consider scientific evidence especially important, be said.
"Juries place considerable weight on that type of evidence," Flory said. "It's a growing scientific type of evidence that we'll see more and more."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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