
Eskridge never
bothered to take the rape kit to the lab in 1980 for analysis. It sat in the
property room for four years until Ewing's arrest in 1984. Eskridge then personally
drove the unprotected rape kit, together with Ewing's samples, to the lab. After
doing so he wrote the above report in September of 1984.
On the date of the Jensen
Preliminary Hearing (11/02/84) blood typing results had not yet
been reported by the crime lab. Nonetheless, Jensen gave testimony that she already
knew those results and that there "was a match." (Recall that Eskridge drove
an unprotected, unsealed rape kit to the lab. On the same trip he had fluid
samples from Ewing).
On 11/15/84 (14 days after the Jensen
Preliminary Hearing) the Lab reported:
The possible donors of the semen found on the
vaginal swab, assuming one donor, are as follows: 1) B Secretor; 2) AB Secretor. Ewing
is a B secretor. Jensen is an A secretor. The blood type of Jensen's boyfriend
is unknown. The defense has presented the theory that Eskridge
took the opportunity to contaminate the rape kit.

