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As Rodney Eric Maxwell sat in the Wise County Jail, charged with the murder of 32-year-old Lauren Anne Whitner, his attorney, Barry Green, was working hard to get him out and to clear his

name. Green had a lot to work with. The warrant to arrest Maxwell

was based on half-truths and some downright misleading information in the affidavit.

Items collected at Maxwell's house that were said to test positive for possible blood

were in areas that, in the normal course of a household's

day, could have been contaminated with any number of substances that often show false positives

for blood when sprayed with luminal and luminal-based chemicals like Blue Star, the substance

used in both his and Lauren's homes.

Items like bleach and other cleaning agents, not to mention saliva, urine, and any number of

metal compounds that might transfer by touch. The case against 39-year-old Maxwell hinged on a

single blade of grass, a piece of evidence that contained

Lauren's blood and DNA. It was taken from an area that had been trampled through by firefighters

and deputies who had come out to the backyard after being inside at the crime scene, which was

bloody. But it was hardly the only piece of evidence authorities had.

There was another suspect the Wise County Sheriff's Office and Texas Ranger James Holland were

investigating as well, a fact that seemed to imply uncertainty in their choice to arrest and

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