Expert disputes boot print evidence in Fairbanks 4 case

Boot print evidence used to link one of the Fairbanks Four to the 1997 murder of John Hartman, are disputed by a forensic expert.
Independent consultant Lesly Hammer testified Friday at an ongoing evidentiary hearing into whether George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent, men known as the Fairbanks Four, convicted of the Hartman attack, are in fact innocent.
Hammer, a former Alaska State Crime lab employee, said prints from George Frese’s boot cannot be matched to photos of