Chapter 5: No DNA of mine at the scene.
Over the years since the murders, more than 90 law enforcement officers, evidence techs, paramedics, and suspects like Casey and Jon were tested and cleared of the two sets of DNA found on the half pieces of chicken from a four-piece chicken meal left in the trash matching a register receipt, and believed by Detectives to have been left by the two suspects who ate and then committed these crimes......Nor did anyone like Casey and Jon match any of the fingerprints left on the food tray with the DNA evidence, the fingerprint in blood on a mop, bloody prints on buckets outside, and other objects the two murderers touched while committing these crimes.
I have always maintained my innocence in this crime; I had absolutely no part in the planning, committing, or the covering up of these crimes. The only thing for which I am guilty is being associated with a former employee of that Brown's Chicken - Juan Luna, who used me as his 1993 alibi, then scapegoated on me in May, 2002, when his DNA was matched to one of the two DNA. In April, 2002, at the same time that Juan gave Detectives a DNA sample, I was called to an interview about being Juan's alibi. They told me they had the two suspects DNA and fingerprints, so I provided fingerprints and more than a handful of DNA mouth cotton swabs to prove that I did not match any of the DNA or fingerprints at the crime scene. This was a month before I was arrested and I did NOT disappear happily ever after into a deep lush forest. Later, during my May, 2002, interrogation, they kept telling me that my DNA was a match. Knowing that this was impossible, I gave them hair root samples to clear my name. No surprise to me, later sitting in the Cook County Jail, I found out that BOTH of my samples came back "NO Match"! Unfortunately, my Jurors didn't get to hear any of this, and most likely didn't know that I didn't match the second DNA (EXHIBIT C) because most of the Press, and even my family missed it, when instead of having an actual Evidence Tech testify from the witness stand, my P.D.s quickly read a piece of paper the ASA agreed to, that read I was a "No Match" right before the Jurors rushed out of the jury box for a break!
While being interviewed by Detectives a month before my May 16, 2002, arrest, I also provided entire hand sides/tips prints to my wrists, and no surprise to me, I was completely cleared by the world renowned fingerprint examiners, John Onstwedder and Mark Acree of over 200 unmatched finger prints, partial prints, and smudges found at the crime scene! In fact, no trace of evidence collected from me, my home, or the crime scene linked me to this case. If there was a chance of a match, I would be living in the woods, fishing instead of writing this Affidavit!