http://latimes.com/editions/ventura/la-000019157mar16.story?coll=la%2Deditions%2Dventura
VENTURA COUNTY Canine DNA Helps Land a Conviction Simi Valley: Hair from victim's dog was genetically matched to fibers on the pants of the defendant in burglary and assault case. After a hard-fought trial in Ventura County Superior Court, a Simi Valley burglar and would-be rapist was proved guilty by a hair. A dog hair. It belonged to a black-and-white Shih Tzu named Casper, whose furious barking the night of Sept. 22, 2000, alerted his owner to an intruder in her bedroom. When the man fled after a brutal rape attempt, he left with the dog's hair on his pants. Those fibers were later matched to Casper by scientists and introduced as evidence. Last month, they helped convict 24-year-old Soum Laykham of residential burglary and assault with intent to commit rape in one of the state's first criminal cases involving the use of canine DNA. <snip> listrelev: tech surveillance, tracking
