From what Helen's saying, I'm tending to think that this show was somewhat biased. I mean, why wouldn't they have done that whole computer thing on AA and AN as well as FS? They should've at least done it for the sake of curiosity to see what would've happened. But they didn't. To me that sounds rather suspicious.
Well, to be fair, this show was done with complete cooperation of the Botkins and Peter Kurth who are probably the biggest supporters of AA being AN. And the show did try to present a balanced view of the case by showing the ear comparison and making a point that it matched, maybe they figured that this was the equivalent of doing the facial comparison between AA and AN, I don't know... And they also had interviewed many AA supporters like the Botkins and Peter Kurth and one of the cousins whom AA lived with. So they seemed to give equal weight to both sides. But basically what everything came down to in the show, it wasn't the facial comparison or the ear comparison or the testimonies, but the DNA results. Both sides agreed that they would accept the results of DNA, before the tests were done, no matter what they turned out to be. In fact, the Botkins were the ones who initiated the whole thing, from what I understand, by obtaining the intestine sample from the hospital. Everyone involved in the show seemed to accept the DNA results that AA wasn't AN, but they had a very hard time accepting that she was FS.
You guys should really try to get this show and watch it as it is very helpful in terms of clarifying a lot of things in this case. I bet they have a copy at the library.
