What a moron, the guy is all scared of DNA evidence, did he not recall that he had intercourse with her, and not her panties, which they took off and threw to the side. and even if they were her panties, it's not like the minute they cut the rope around her wrist, she asked "where are my panties?" and put them back on before the helicopter came to pick her up.
shareThe panties were around her neck. Depending on exactly what happened during that long night, it is quite plausible that they could have DNA evidence.
shareI hope all would be rapists get to see this or otherwise learn that DNA evidence is there (?) forever!
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"where are my panties" you are an idiot. it is a crime scene. they would of picked up anything that could be used as evidence. and i think that a pair of white panties in the middle of a "battle field
right around where a woman got raped would be something that would catch their eye.
If you want to make an argument for him for being an idiot. the panties where white. when out on drills like that or active duty underwear is not white. they are drab or green. and if you are at west point you are doing it by the book.
In Captain Campbell's recreation of her rape, she had white panties around her neck. I can't recall exactly if the panties were white when she was raped 7 years earlier, but I think so. She remembered the color, but the accused officer did not, and may have forgotten every detail when his squad mates raped the young cadet Campbell.
Furthermore, he could not very well say, "Those aren't her panties, she was wearing white panties when we raped her."
And finally, the character he was playing wasn't the quickest wit -- if he'd realized they were the wrong color, he would have known that Sunhill was bluffing. He wasn't quick enough to think his way out of her trap.
And it happend at night, they could have been pink and he still wouldn't have remembered.
shareAnd the #1 answer everyone missed: DNA comes from sources other than semen. Could have bled, epithelials from his skin, saliva, sweat, any number of sources.
Also, whenever a violent crime is committed, investigators never go back to the scene and look for evidence, right..?
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Also when the detective brings the panties to the young soldier they are white and clean, but during the rape they would have gotten quite dirty by mud for example.
But this was a great film I just watched it.
When this film was made, DNA evidence was kind of a hot topic and a "tell all" for court cases. If someone from CID comes along and tells you they have DNA evidence with your name on it, you can't help but sweat, which was what she was trying to do. He didn't know enough about it, much like most other people; they hear DNA evidence, and think it's fool-proof.
Here's to the health of Cardinal Puff.