Amy Winters

Amy Winters,

D-ABC

Forensic

Biologist, Bioscience Section

Mississippi

Crime Laboratory

 [email protected]

I earned a Bachelor

of Science degree in General Science (30 hours Biology, 20 hours Chemistry) from

Mississippi State University in Starkville, MS.  I worked for 21/2 years as a Medical

Technologist at Puckett Pathology Laboratory in Hattiesburg, MS where I

conducted diagnostic tests on urine, blood, and other body fluids. 

I have been employed as a serologist in the Bioscience Section of the

Mississippi Crime Laboratory since February 1995. 

My duties are to examine items of evidence for the presence or absence of

blood, semen, or other body fluids.  If

stains are located on an item, they are tested further in attempts to ID them as

a particular body fluid.  If blood

or semen is identified, or if there is a stain from suspected saliva, sweat,

etc…, the stains are then preserved for DNA testing. 

Once a report is issued on my examinations, I testify to those results

when called upon to do so.  I have

had the opportunity to testify 25 times in the Circuit Courts of Mississippi. 

I am currently in a formal training program for DNA testing. 

The Bioscience Section of the Mississippi Crime Laboratory is in the

final stages of implementing the most current technology in DNA testing, Short

Tandem Repeat (STR) Analysis via Capillary Electrophoresis. 

I also, on occasion, instruct law enforcement officers on the proper

collection, packaging, and preservation of biological evidence. 

I am currently involved in the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner’s (SANE)

training program where I assist in the instruction of Hospital Emergency Room

nurses in the proper collection, packaging, and preservation of Sexual Assault

Collection Kits that are collected from victims of sexual assault.

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