CENTENNIAL — DNA samples taken from the room where the girls slept in Aaron Thompson’s Aurora home showed no signs that his daughter, Aaroné, had lived there.
Yvonne Woods, a lab agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, testified Thursday in Thompson’s trial that DNA of the three other girls was found either on pillowcases or bedsheets. But there was no DNA from Aaroné.
Thompson reported his daughter missing in November 2005, but police believe she was killed two years earlier. He faces 60 criminal counts, including child abuse resulting in death, in Arapahoe County District Court.
Woods also said she tested a jacket that Thompson said was Aaroné’s, but there was no DNA of the little girl on that either. Only Thompson’s DNA was found on the jacket, she said.
“I just found it extraordinarily clean, . . . and it apparently hasn’t been worn,” Woods said.
Woods testified that there were no traces of blood on a baseball bat that was taken into evidence. Some of the seven other children living in the Aurora home have testified that they were beaten with the bat.
However, Woods said any blood could have been cleaned off enough to prevent detection by tests.
The trial, finishing its fourth week, is recessed until Tuesday. Woods will finish testifying, then the defense plans to argue a motion to acquit. If denied, the defense will begin its case Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier, Aurora police Detective Randy Hansen testified that one of the sons of Shelley Lowe, Thompson’s late girlfriend, told him that he helped bury Aaroné’s body.
The boy, who is now 18, took Hansen to that location. Police used ground-penetrating radar and examined the area but did not find any place where the ground had been disturbed.
Hansen said police received numerous tips from citizens as to where the little girl may have been buried. They checked most of them out but did not find a body.
