Well, well. Now we have CMPD on record that it is going back and using the latest developments in DNA technology to — in effect — re-open the Kim Thomas murder case.
Is Mecklenburg County district attorney Peter Gilchrist fully prepared to deal with the results? He better be. I’m told that the Charlotte legal community is holding its collective breath, unsure of what will happen if Marion Gales’ DNA is found on crucial bits of evidence in the case, such as the handcuffs used on Kim Thomas back in 1990.
Simply put, if Gales is as innocent of the crime as Gilchrist, CMPD, and entire city power structure has maintained all these years, his DNA should be no where near Thomas’ body. The same cannot be said of Thomas’ husband, Ed Friedland. A man who lived in the same house should leave DNA traces all over it. The distinction should not be lost moving forward.
Gilchrist, therefore, if he is confronted with DNA evidence of both men at the crime scene should not and cannot claim it is a wash. Let’s see what happens.
