Crisostomo DNA matched Romero samples

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

IT&E records corroborate testimony about Crisostomo using Kintaro cell phone

A Federal Bureau of Investigation forensic examiner in the nuclear DNA unit at the FBI Lab in Quantico, Virginia, testified yesterday that Joseph A. Crisostomos DNA matched the DNA obtained from swab samples taken from the vagina of murdered bartender Emerita R. Romero.

Testifying for the CNMI government in the ongoing jury trial of 40-year-old Crisostomo in Superior Court, FBI forensic examiner Susannah Kehl disclosed that she tested the sexual assault kit that the FBI Saipan Office sent to their laboratory and that she concluded the positive presence of semen in Romeros vagina.

James Calderwood, IT&E manager for network services, also took the witness stand yesterday about records of cell phone calls from the numbers of Romero and Alicia Kintaro.

Kintaro testified last week that Crisostomo borrowed her cell phone in the early morning of Feb. 5, 2012. IT&E records revealed that when Kintaros cell phone was used, the originating cell tower for the call was at Palms Resort in San Roque.

Palms Resort is located across the former La Fiesta Mall where Romeros body was found by FBI agents on Feb. 7, 2012.

In her testimony, FBI forensic examiner Kehl first explained about DNA and how to extract, test, and compare it.

Kehl said that in Romeros case, the FBI Saipan Office made two submissions to the FBI Labone from FBI special agent Joe Auther and then from FBI special agent Haejun Park.

Kehl said she did not detect blood on a metal door taken from La Fiesta Mall.

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Crisostomo DNA matched Romero samples