Michelle Gardner-Quinn
A jewelry store security camera showed Rooney walking with the victim on October 7, 2006 at 2:34 A.M. It has been said that Gardner-Quinn had borrowed Rooney's cell phone to try to reunite with friends she had been out with. According to Vermont police, it is also said that Rooney was the last person to see her alive.
Rooney's guilt was based largely on the strength of DNA evidence taken from semen found inside Quinn's body, while his lawyer argued that "two nanograms of sperm" handled by a forensic lab with a history of sloppy work was not sufficient to convict.
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