From Story Mechanics and VPM.

Sometimes when all the other evidence was destroyed, we could find a slide buried in the basement of a hospital that was 30 years old.

As co-founder of the Innocence Project,

Peter Neufeld's work depends on finding evidence.

We found evidence sometimes stuffed in a brown paper bag

wedged behind the prosecutor's desk and so it was sitting there

next to an old ham and cheese sandwich.

So we have found evidence in all kinds of peculiar places.

In the case of Marvin Anderson, the wrongfully convicted man

we met in our first episode, they had been told

over and over again that there was no evidence left.

But Peter Neufeld took another shot,

convincing the lab's director to look one last time.

And...

Holy cow, we still got some of this evidence. and... the first domino that tipped over and set off a chain reaction, turning up Mary Jane Burton's clippings

and resulting in 13 DNA exonerations. But Peter tells me that's not exactly how it went down.

When we found the evidence, Paul Ferrara, who was the director of all the state labs, said,

oh, let's test it. A few days later I get a call from Paul Ferora saying

that the state is not allowing me to do the test it, which was stunning to us.

They had the

evidence, they had the technology, the problem.

A 21 day rule.

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