On
August 24th, 1995, two days after the opening arguments in Michael
Chapel’s murder trial, Kelly Fite, of the GBI Crime Lab, a weapon and tool
expert, not a serologist, authored a report wherein he stated that he marked
what he considered bloodspots additional to those already marked on July 7,
1993 by GBI Serologist Jennifer Wilson on the raincoat in different colored
ink. This photograph shows a small amount of detail on the raincoat.
Fite testified he
had seen those bloodspots on the raincoat on July 7th, 1993, the
same day that Serologist Jennifer Wilson testified she tested the raincoat
chemically for blood of human origin and found only 7 spots. Fite, on the other
hand, circled dozens of spots that he indicated was high velocity blood
spatter.
The
production and timing of Fite’s report and the dates he throws around in his
testimony makes it highly suspect; however there may be another explanation for
any additional bloodspots on the raincoat.