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Expert: DNA on knife used to kill Lucero was victim's

Originally published: March 31, 2010 2:26 PM
Updated: March 31, 2010 10:23 PM
By KATHLEEN KERR  kathleen.kerr@newsday.com

Prosecutors say this knife was used to stab

Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Prosecutors say this knife was used to stab Marcelo Lucero. (April 1, 2010)

Samples taken from bloodstains on the blade of a saw-toothed knife prosecutors say was used to kill an Ecuadorean immigrant in Patchogue matched his DNA, a Suffolk County blood expert testified Wednesday.

Robert Baumann, a forensic scientist in the Suffolk County crime laboratory, said in a Riverhead courtroom that DNA taken from the knife matched that of the dead man, Marcelo Lucero, 37.

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