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DNA link between Sarah Fox murder & OWS scenes could be mistake: sources

Investigators believe the DNA “match” between evidence from the 2004 cold case murder of a Juilliard student and a chain abandoned at a Occupy Wall Street protest earlier this year could have come from a lab worker, sources told The Post.

Several law enforcement sources today cast doubt on the link between DNA lifted from a pink CD player found near the decomposed body of Sarah Fox, a 21–year old aspiring actress who went missing after a May, 2004 jog, and that left behind by OWS activists after a Brooklyn subway station protest in March.

The match, first reported by NBC Channel 4, was discovered Monday night, sources told The Post.

“The DNA was contaminated,” a source said today.

“It was a total screw up,” said another.

Another law enforcement source familiar with the unsolved Fox case said it was highly improbable that there was a real connection between the material on the chain and the DNA on the CD player.

“What are the chances that the killer came in contact with this chain and left his DNA on it all these years later?” the source said.