Melanie McGuire's Indictment - A Case Study

Tackapena wasn't licensed to practice law in New Jersey, he was given permission to serve alongside a local attorney. A website titled The Friends of Melanie Legal Defense Fund was set up with donations from Melanie's support network and anonymous contributors securing her $2 million bail. By November, results of forensic testing revealed traces of Melanie's DNA on the floor of Bill's abandoned Nissen Maxima. Microscopic human tissue and bone particles had also been discovered on the driver's side floor mat, described as human sawdust. In January 2006, a forensic team searched the McGuire's former apartment for a third time, looking for a possible source for green fibers found on a bullet recovered