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KOOPMANS TRIAL: Bloodstains on clothing matched victim’s, court hears

PENTICTON - Bloodstains on the jeans of John Ike Koopmans were identified as his and murder victim Keith Wharton’s, jurors in the Koopmans double murder trial heard today. Christine Crossman, Biology Reporting Scientist for the RCMP Forensic Lab, took the stand March 23 to explain the specifics of DNA evidence to the jury. She told...