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Physical Evidence
O'Keefe's Clothing Collection from Good Samaritan Hospital
O'Keefe's hospital clothing collection, dried on butcher paper. Both shirts were initially bagged together and separated at an unknown point; the clothing reached the lab March 14.
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Chain-of-custody problems were a recurring theme across both trials: the clothing sat unsecured in an accessible room for six days with no access log before being formally bagged by Trooper Proctor on February 4th — the bag label was post-dated relative to collection. The prolonged, unsecured storage and late lab delivery raised contamination and integrity challenges to subsequent biological and trace evidence findings.
The full set of John O'Keefe's clothing recovered at Good Samaritan Hospital on January 29, 2022, comprising gray sweatshirt, orange T-shirt, blue jeans, belt, and boxer shorts (and in some accounts a right Nike sneaker). The items were laid on butcher paper to dry; an evidence bag photograph shows both shirts were originally stored together before being separated at an unknown point. The clothing was not delivered to the lab until March 14.