Ivana Hodak Murderer`s DNA Found In Bullet Shell?

Even if the police had gone through their data base, they would not have found Slogar, because his DNA was not registered.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – DNA of Mladen Slogar, suspected of the murder of law intern Ivana Hodak was found on a bullet shell left in the staircase of the building where she was killed last October. It is this shell that was submitted to the court as yet another piece of evidence, the Vecernji list daily writes.

Still, the police would not comment on the findings, but they just say that a sufficient amount of evidence was gathered to reveal the motive of the murder, the perpetrator and the way it was carried out, according to the Vecernji list paper. The DNA profile which was left in the shell matches that of Slogar over 60 percent, the paper concludes.

The trace left is sweat, experts determined, in microtraces left by Slogar`s fingers when he held the shell.

The Croatian Interior Ministry database has some 20,000 DNA samples which are compared with crime scene evidence. Still, Mladen Slogar is not in that base, therefore the police would not have found him before, even is a more powerful piece of DNA evidence was found, the Vecernji list claims.