What did the latex glove found at Tara Grinstead's house show?

A white latex glove found in Tara Grinstead's front flower bed in 2005 carried two DNA profiles, hers and an unknown man's. More than 200 men were swabbed without a match, including her early suspects and Bo Dukes. At Ryan Duke's 2022 trial a GBI expert said the inner glove matched Duke with a probability of one in 300 quadrillion, and another expert matched two palm prints on it to him.

• Retired GBI agent Gary Rothwell calls the glove the key link to identifying who was responsible.
• The defense argued the glove was planted.

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“The glove was everything in this case.” Gary Rothwell · at 39:05 — open in the transcript →

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on Dateline NBC (2026-11-03). Read the whole episode summary →

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