She was a key witness in a retaliation case against the LAPD. The city told attorneys she was dead. She wasn’t.
The city declined to comment Thursday on why it said Tucker was dead, but its attorneys argued in court papers that she would have been too ill to testify anyway., with the judge ruling that the back-and-forth between attorneys about Tucker’s whereabouts would not be allowed in as evidence. Tucker eventually died at 79 of Alzheimer’s and other health problems in late 2017, about two years after Francis’ attorneys first tried to reach her.
“It would’ve been devastating to the city if she were to come into court and say, ‘This woman came to me and there was absolutely nothing that required her to come and see me,’” Taylor said. Francis’ involvement in the murder case dates back to 2004, when she was a new DNA analyst in the LAPD’s crime lab. She discovered early the next year that DNA from a bite mark on the victim’s arm belonged to a woman and questioned the theory that the brutal slaying was the work of a two male burglars.
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