Emails between Kratz and Culhane

Typed up this email since the original doesn't copy well, so that everyone can copy it, paste it, quote it, dissect it....play with it :)

When I use quotation marks around something, it's either because I'm quoting something, or I'm referring to something....that is.... different from what I'm really saying, I Think that's pretty universal?...for example, Brendan's "confession" I put quotations around confession, because it's not really a confesssion, we're just calling it that. So, note where his quotation marks are.

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Kratz email to Sherry Culhane Original pdf

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Culhane, Sherry L-
'From: Kratz, Ken.
Sent: Tuesday, February 07,2006 1:.16 pM.
To: Culhane, Sherry L.
Subject: RE: Steven Avery Case.

Thanks so much for your quick response sounds like you've got everything handled, I spoke with Mark Wiegert and he mentioned he called about swabbing the trigger part of the gun for dna then sending it off for the tool mark guys, thanks for doing that. Thank you also for testing all the stains in the SUV...that will be a huge weapon against the claim of planted evidence.

The STR powerpoint I found is pretty basic but I don’t intend to go into a lot of the “science” of the dna analysis for the jury, this is consistent with the way Norm usually does it.

I still don’t understand the 2 dna, markers (penta..E and D)...what chromosomes are analyzed/inspected associated with these 7 loci I’m sure you’ll explain what 5 base pair repairs means at the necessary time, so we don't need to go into it now.

Can you identify the 7 loci that matched on the tissue analysis?

Most of what will be presented at trial will be computer based exhibits (powerpoint), so although we can develop the actual exhibit in court.We’ll need to do that in a computer format, then just print out a small page to have marKed as an exhibit for the court.

Mark Wiegert is checking the 1985 Manitowoc blood sample taken, to make sure what it was. so you tested that sample back then? How bizzare is that? Were you also the analyst who got him out of prison in 2003?

I understand the frequency point on the MTDNA match, it’s amazing however how much weight the public attributed to that finding locally, that the “FBI confirms the remains are that of the victims”! We were careful not to say that at all but perceptions are what they are. On that topic, didn’t the RFLP testing use 7 loci for a "match”?

I do not need your profiles generated on ALL the results profiies the way you did your last report is fine (lumping all the profiles that were from each respective source together).

The only thing I do still want is a profile developed for the 3 men that submitted elimination exemplars (Chuck Avery, Earl Avery and Bobby Dassey) I totally understand that your protocol suggests that you stop developing elimination profiles when you find a match, but in this case the only men on the property when the victim was killed included the Defendant (Steve) and his two brothers (Earl and Chuck) and his nephew (Bobby) I want to be able to SHOW the jury what these profiles look like and show them that they do not match the blood recovered from the suv I know this seems overly sensitive to the CSI effect, but it eliminates a whole line of defense questioning and possible jury confusion as to why it wasn’t done. Here’s the good news I don’t need that one right away! Anytime between May and June would be just fine--sound okay? Please send the elimination “profiles” themselves so I can use them in the exhibits.

So just those three exemplars (Barb and Delores can be eliminated on Xy alone), and I think that all I need. Never thought you’d hear that hey????
Send your reports when you can and call and write if you need anything else, I’ll be talking to Norm and we’ll make an appointment when it’s convenient for you.

Thanks again Sherry,
Ken

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I'll try to type this one up soon, thought I'd include it here.

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