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A7 The Vancouver Sun, Tuesday, October 15, Taf 1 CANADA LEGERE TRIAL ROYAL VISIT Denmark's queen heading for Victoria Genetic 'fingerprints' of murderer to be offered in evidence Canadian Press Canadian Press DNA evidence is a very important part of the Crown's case. In fact, it's the principal Dart. TONY ALLMAN 99 CALGARY Queen Margrethe of Denmark, following a visit to Alberta, was slated to leave today for Victoria. The 51-year-old monarch, accompanied by her husband, Prince Henrik, was greeted Sunday by about 200 people waving the red-and-white flag of Denmark, who lined an airport tarmac. The queen flew into Calgary at noon from Iqaluit, N.W.T., on a Canadian Forces Boeing 707.

The royal couple was officially welcomed by provincial Gordon Towers, Social Services Minister John Oldring and Calgary Mayor Al Duerr. Also in the red-carpet receiving line were Kai Mortensen, honorary consul of Denmark in Calgary and Donn Larsen, honorary consul of Denmark in Edmonton. Queen Margrethe, who is on an eight-day visit to Canada, waved to the enthusiastic crowd and accepted a bouquet of flowers from seven-year-old Calgarian Stephanie Vendryes. Ulla Petersen, 38, and her son Simon, 7, drove down from Red Deer, to catch a glimpse ol the monarch who has reigned over her nation of five million for 19 years. 'r "We are just so excited to see her," said Petersen, who moved from Denmark to Canada nine years ago.

"I could just cry, I am so happy." WSm if BM bodies of sisters Donna Daughney, 45, and Linda Daughney, 41, who were found murdered on Oct. 13, 1989 in their Newcastle home. There has been no DNA evidence introduced in connection with the murder of Rev. James Smith, a 69-year-old Catholic priest whose badly beaten body was discovered in a church rectory in Chatham Head on Nov. 16, 1989.

The DNA found in semen from the female victims has been compared to the DNA found in Legere's blood and from root cells extracted from samples of Legere's pubic hair. Police got the blood sample when an alert RCMP officer noticed blood on a tissue Legere used to blow his nose shortly after his capture on i fell cAKlADiM PRESS BURTON, N.B. The gumshoe detectives will move aside for the white-coated super sleuths as the murder trial of Allan Legere resumes this morning. After weeks of conventional evidence concerning the murders of four people in New Brunswick's Miramichi region in 1989, the new-science of DNA fingerprinting is about to take centre stage. The justice system will be watching intently as the case develops using science and techniques that have projected police work and forensics into a brand-new era.

DNA evidence is a very important part of the Crown's case," prosecutor Tony Allman told the jury more than a month ago at the start of the long and complicated trial. "In fact, it's the principal part." During the past couple of weeks, the Crown has introduced bits and pieces of evidence that will form the foundation of the DNA testimony. Perhaps the oddest evidence came late last week as the Crown entered Legere's birth records so there can be no question of his identity. He was born Joseph Allan Legere on Feb. 13, 1948 one of only three babies, all male, born in New Brunswick that day.

According to the records, his mother Louise gave birth to her son in Chatham Head. Forty-three years later, Legere, already serving a life sentence for his part in the 1986 murder of an elderly Miramichi shopkeeper, is on trial for the murders of four people. The killings took place during the same seven-month period in 1989 that Legere was on the loose after escaping from prison guards while visiting a hospital in Moncton. At least six scientists are expected to testify in upcoming weeks about unique DNA patterns in semen, blood and hair that the Crown says will place Legere at three of the four murders. DNA evidence was first introduced in Canadian criminal courts in 1988 and has been used in at least three trials since then.

But it has never been tested in such a large murder trial in this country. The semen for the tests was taken from Nina Flam, who was raped by a masked intruder after her sister-in-law Annie Flam, 75, was killed in the same Chatham home on May 28, 1989. Semen was also take from the ROYAL STOP: Danish Queen Margrethe visits National Ballet School in Toronto Nov. 24. Allman has already told the court there's only a minute statistical chance the semen came from anyone other than Legere.

For example, Allman said in the case of Linda Daughney, statisticians estimate there's only one chance in 310 million that another male Caucasian would have the same DNA pattern. "The bottom line is that these matches are extremely rare," the prosecutor said. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is found in all living, white blood cells. It is known as the building block of life because it carries blueprints from each parent determining hair and eye color, height and other individual characteristics. DNA can be extracted from blood, semen, hair or skin samples and scientists can then use enzymes, electrical fields and radioactive genetic fragments to come up with chemical patterns on an x-ray film.

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