31-Mar-2024

The Miramar Murders TV Show About the Pablo Ibar Trial

On June 6, 1994, two masked gunmen burst into Casimir "Butch Casey" Sucharski's home in Miramar, Florida. They shot and killed Sucharski, owner of Casey's Nickelodeon, and his two nightclub dancers Sharon Anderson and Marie Rogers. A hidden video camera recorded the killers pumping bullets into three bound bodies on the floor. One gunman then removed the T-shirt from his face; it looked like Pablo Ibar.

The DNA of Ibar and victim Sharon Anderson were mixed together on the T- shirt. The county crime labʼs DNA results were limited. But Cybergeneticsʼ more powerful TrueAllele® computer analysis found that a match between the shirt and Ibar was 353 trillion times more probable than coincidence. And placed Anderson on the shirt as well.

A six-episode television documentary The Miramar Murders: The State vs. Pablo Ibar covers the 2018 Fort Lauderdale trial. Towards the end of Episode 3, Cybergenetics Chief Scientist Dr. Mark Perlin testifies about the TrueAllele® T-shirt evidence.

Asked about how many people contributed their DNA to the T-shirt, Dr. Perlin said, “Whether we assume two contributors or three contributors, the major contributor (over 50% of the DNA) kept coming back to the same individual – Mr. Ibar – with a match statistic in the hundreds of trillions. So [the number of contributors] didn't make a difference.”

Regarding the unbiased TrueAllele computer system, Assistant State Attorney William Sinclair observed, “The data is the data. The results are the results.” Defense Attorney Fred Haddad commented, “I think the DNA, before Perlin, was not as problematic as it became. But when Perlin found a mix of Pablo's DNA with the dead girl, that changed the whole thing.”