The Fitbit data was a crucial piece of evidence that proved Doug Dietry was innocent of the murder.

“it turns out when they reviewed that footage they saw that Doug was wearing a Fitbit and this is not the first case where I have either covered or heard of this happening but the Fitbit ended up playing a huge part in the case and it actually helped prove that he didn't commit her murder”

The backlog at the Kentucky state crime lab delayed the investigation and prevented the timely processing of critical evidence.

“Still, even with everything they have at that time, months go by while KSP waits for the forensic testing they did to come back because the lab is backlogged.”

Police frequently fail to utilize available CCTV footage as evidence to investigate crimes.

“I gave their story to the Telegraph and suddenly the med gets back and says, "Oh, no, no, no. We are going to look at the CCTV footage." By the way, they actually never got a hold of the CCTV footage at all. So, so they said they would look at it, but didn't. Nothing happened.”

Handwriting analysis in the trial is a critical component for the state's case regarding forgery charges.

“Not only is Corey, by the way, just to set the stage for people new to this trial. I know a lot of people said they actually caught up over the weekend, but we have an murder charge with for Corey, we also have an attempted murder charge, but we also have insurance fraud and forgery. So now bringing”

The defense contends that prior interviews of a witness should be admitted in their entirety if any portions are admitted to avoid cherry-picking by the state.

“I don't see how that has anything to do with what we're even talking about. And as I go through the transcripts, it's very much just what the state wants the jury to hear. I mean, if we're going to do this, which I think is completely inappropriate, this is a Crawford problem.”

The prosecution asserts that context for an interview can be established through examination of the witness rather than including extraneous redacted material.

“The interview context uh can be sufficiently drawn out through examination of Jeff O'Driscoll. I mean, I'll I'll lay a lot of found some of that foundation before I introduce any any of the statements. And then um of course he's subject to cross on that.”

Individuals who suspect they might be missing persons should take a DNA test as it is a viable path to solving cases.

“you may be who I'm looking for and you know we know with the DNA a whole lot of cases have been solved people have came home cases have been solved and everything so it's not impossible and even if you're not Raymond but you feel like something is wrong go take a DNA test go take one”

Lou Smit maintains that the unidentified male DNA found on JonBenét's clothing is a critical piece of evidence pointing to an intruder.

“To a detective raised on the idea that every killer leaves a piece of himself behind. One stray speck might be a fluke. But the same stranger's DNA twice on a murdered child is a person who was there.”