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State of Florida v Pablo Ibar
TrueAllele separates contributors to complex T-shirt mixture sample
| Crime | 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. |
| Evidence | One assailant used a T-shirt as a face covering during the crime. |
| DNA | A private DNA laboratory produced STR data from different areas of the T-shirt. |
| Match | The lab was able to identify only a partial major male profile from one of the T-Shirt area mixtures and included suspect Pablo Ibar as a contributor with a CPI match statistic of 11 million at 5 out of 15 loci. |
| TrueAllele | Using all of the DNA data, TrueAllele connected the T-shirt to Pablo Ibar with a match statistic of 353 trillion. |
| Cybergenetics | On December 20, 2018, Dr. Mark Perlin testified before a Broward County jury about the TrueAllele DNA results. |
| Outcome | After his third trial, the jury found Pablo Ibar guilty of the three 1994 murders on January 19, 2019. He was sentenced to life in prison. |
Media
- Death Row inmate Pablo Ibar wins marathon fight for new trial - Tampa Bay Times
- Death row inmate Pablo Ibar wins marathon fight for vacated sentence, new trial - Tampa Bay Times
- Death row inmate Pablo Ibar found guilty of triple murder for a second time - El Pais
- Spanish citizen found guilty of triple murder - The Ledger
- Convicted murderer Pablo Ibar escapes capital punishment in Florida - El Pais
- DNA Mixture Sorts Out Triple-Homicide Conviction in Florida - Forensic Magazine