They told her: Bass was a suspect in the 1989 rape and murder of 18-year-old Mandy Stavik, one of the region’s most infamous unsolved crimes. When the results came back from the state crime lab, Bass’s DNA from the soda and cup were a 1 in 11 quadrillion match to DNA recovered from the dead young woman, prosecutors say. She had it all going for her; she had a bright future ahead of her.”In the fall of 1989, Stavik was a freshman at Central Washington University. But investigators apparently did not have enough evidence for a search warrant to compel a DNA sample from Bass. But following Bass’s arrest, his attorneys attempted to have the DNA evidence thrown out because they argue the search violated his Fourth Amendment rights.

Source: Washington Post December 18, 2018 10:37 UTC