Police fire forensic scientist over ‘infidelity test’ on hubby’s undies

A TOP forensic scientist who tested her husband’s underwear for DNA to determine whether he was unfaithful has been fired by Michigan police in the US.

Ann Chamberlain, 33, testified in a March 7 divorce hearing that she ran the test last September on the underwear of her husband, Charles Gordon.

Asked by his lawyer what she found, she answered: “Another female. It wasn’t me.”

She said during another hearing that she ran the test on her own time with expired chemicals that were due to be thrown away.

Michigan State Police, which oversees the Lansing forensics laboratory where Ms Chamberlain worked, announced yesterday that it had sacked her after conducting an internal investigation into breaches of department administrative policy.

State police policies dealing with the care and use of property say that “department supplies, materials or equipment shall not be used for any non-duty or non-department purpose”.

Ms Chamberlain would not comment last night.

A lawyer for Mr Gordon, Michael Maddaloni, said his client — who court records show played with the Canadian Football League from the early 1990s to 1997 — disputed his wife’s testimony that he had acknowledged a sexual encounter with another woman after she found the female DNA on his underwear.

Ms Chamberlain had worked for the state police as a forensic scientist since 1999.

She received an award for outstanding contribution to the state police biological services last year for her research and method development in embryonic/foetal DNA recovery.